On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:23:28PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > diff.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > t/t4202-log.sh | 4 +++- > 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c > index fc1151b9c7..a57e458f63 100644 > --- a/diff.c > +++ b/diff.c > @@ -4821,13 +4821,38 @@ static int diff_opt_diff_filter(const struct option *option, > prepare_filter_bits(); > > /* > - * If the input starts with a negation e.g. 'd', and we haven't > + * If there is a negation e.g. 'd' in the input, and we haven't > * initialized the filter field with another --diff-filter, start > * from full set of bits, except for AON. > + * However, the user can try to limit to selected positive bits, > + * in which case we do not have to. > + * > + * NEEDSWORK: the "we haven't initialied" above is meant to > + * address cases where multiple options, e.g. --diff-filter=d > + * --diff-filter=a are given. But this implementation is > + * insufficient when we refrain from starting from full set > + * when any positive bit is given. Consider "--diff-filter=D > + * --diff-filter=r", which ought to behave the same way as > + * "--diff-filter=Dr" and "--diff-filter=rD". The right fix > + * would probably involve two "opt->filter[NP]" fields, > + * records positive and negative bits separately in them while > + * parsing, and then after processing all options, compute > + * opt->filter by subtracting opt->filterN from opt->filterP > + * (and when we do so, fill opt->filterP to full bits if it is > + * absolutely empty). > */ > if (!opt->filter) { > - optch = optarg[0]; > - if (optch >= 'a' && 'z' >= optch) { > + int has_positive = 0; > + int has_negative = 0; > + > + for (i = 0; (optch = optarg[i]) != '\0'; i++) { > + if (optch < 'a' || 'z' < optch) > + has_positive++; > + else > + has_negative++; > + } > + > + if (!has_positive && has_negative) { > opt->filter = (1 << (ARRAY_SIZE(diff_status_letters) - 1)) - 1; > opt->filter &= ~filter_bit[DIFF_STATUS_FILTER_AON]; > } Ahh. I feel much better about this implementation. Something was nagging me about treating optarg[0] specially, and you put very succinctly what it was that was bothering me. (One small nit that I absolutely do not care about is using a variable that starts with 'has_'--which I would expect to be a boolean--to count the number of positive/negative filters. Perhaps calling these positive_nr, and negative_nr, respectively, would be clearer.) > diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh > index 28f727937d..128183e66f 100755 > --- a/t/t4202-log.sh > +++ b/t/t4202-log.sh > @@ -142,10 +142,12 @@ test_expect_success 'diff-filter=R' ' > > ' > > -test_expect_success 'diff-filter=Ra' ' > +test_expect_success 'diff-filter=Ra and aR' ' > > git log -M --pretty="format:%s" --diff-filter=R HEAD >expect && > git log -M --pretty="format:%s" --diff-filter=Ra HEAD >actual && > + test_cmp expect actual && > + git log -M --pretty="format:%s" --diff-filter=aR HEAD >actual && > test_cmp expect actual Perfect. Thanks, Taylor