- 03 Oct, 2016 1 commit
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Commit a49895b5 (xdl_change_compact(): introduce the concept of a change group, 2016-08-22) added a "struct group" type to xdiff/xdiffi.c. But the POSIX system header "grp.h" already defines "struct group" (it is part of the getgrnam interface). Let's resolve by giving the xdiff variant a scoped name, which is closer to other xdiff types anyway (e.g., xdlfile_t, though note that xdiff is fond if typedefs when Git usually is not).
Jeff King committed
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- 29 Sep, 2016 4 commits
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Some groups of added/deleted lines in diffs can be slid up or down, because lines at the edges of the group are not unique. Picking good shifts for such groups is not a matter of correctness but definitely has a big effect on aesthetics. For example, consider the following two diffs. The first is what standard Git emits: --- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl +++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl @@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) { } if (!$smtp_server) { + $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver'); +} +if (!$smtp_server) { foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) { if (-x $_) { $smtp_server = $_; The following diff is equivalent, but is obviously preferable from an aesthetic point of view: --- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl +++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl @@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) { $initial_reply_to =~ s/(^\s+|\s+$)//g; } +if (!$smtp_server) { + $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver'); +} if (!$smtp_server) { foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) { if (-x $_) { This patch teaches Git to pick better positions for such "diff sliders" using heuristics that take the positions of nearby blank lines and the indentation of nearby lines into account. The existing Git code basically always shifts such "sliders" as far down in the file as possible. The only exception is when the slider can be aligned with a group of changed lines in the other file, in which case Git favors depicting the change as one add+delete block rather than one add and a slightly offset delete block. This naive algorithm often yields ugly diffs. Commit d634d61ed6 improved the situation somewhat by preferring to position add/delete groups to make their last line a blank line, when that is possible. This heuristic does more good than harm, but (1) it can only help if there are blank lines in the right places, and (2) always picks the last blank line, even if there are others that might be better. The end result is that it makes perhaps 1/3 as many errors as the default Git algorithm, but that still leaves a lot of ugly diffs. This commit implements a new and much better heuristic for picking optimal "slider" positions using the following approach: First observe that each hypothetical positioning of a diff slider introduces two splits: one between the context lines preceding the group and the first added/deleted line, and the other between the last added/deleted line and the first line of context following it. It tries to find the positioning that creates the least bad splits. Splits are evaluated based only on the presence and locations of nearby blank lines, and the indentation of lines near the split. Basically, it prefers to introduce splits adjacent to blank lines, between lines that are indented less, and between lines with the same level of indentation. In more detail: 1. It measures the following characteristics of a proposed splitting position in a `struct split_measurement`: * the number of blank lines above the proposed split * whether the line directly after the split is blank * the number of blank lines following that line * the indentation of the nearest non-blank line above the split * the indentation of the line directly below the split * the indentation of the nearest non-blank line after that line 2. It combines the measured attributes using a bunch of empirically-optimized weighting factors to derive a `struct split_score` that measures the "badness" of splitting the text at that position. 3. It combines the `split_score` for the top and the bottom of the slider at each of its possible positions, and selects the position that has the best `split_score`. I determined the initial set of weighting factors by collecting a corpus of Git histories from 29 open-source software projects in various programming languages. I generated many diffs from this corpus, and determined the best positioning "by eye" for about 6600 diff sliders. I used about half of the repositories in the corpus (corresponding to about 2/3 of the sliders) as a training set, and optimized the weights against this corpus using a crude automated search of the parameter space to get the best agreement with the manually-determined values. Then I tested the resulting heuristic against the full corpus. The results are summarized in the following table, in column `indent-1`: | repository | count | Git 2.9.0 | compaction | compaction-fixed | indent-1 | indent-2 | | --------------------- | ----- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | | afnetworking | 109 | 89 (81.7%) | 37 (33.9%) | 37 (33.9%) | 2 (1.8%) | 2 (1.8%) | | alamofire | 30 | 18 (60.0%) | 14 (46.7%) | 15 (50.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | angular | 184 | 127 (69.0%) | 39 (21.2%) | 23 (12.5%) | 5 (2.7%) | 5 (2.7%) | | animate | 313 | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | | ant | 380 | 356 (93.7%) | 152 (40.0%) | 148 (38.9%) | 15 (3.9%) | 15 (3.9%) | * | bugzilla | 306 | 263 (85.9%) | 109 (35.6%) | 99 (32.4%) | 14 (4.6%) | 15 (4.9%) | * | corefx | 126 | 91 (72.2%) | 22 (17.5%) | 21 (16.7%) | 6 (4.8%) | 6 (4.8%) | | couchdb | 78 | 44 (56.4%) | 26 (33.3%) | 28 (35.9%) | 6 (7.7%) | 6 (7.7%) | * | cpython | 937 | 158 (16.9%) | 50 (5.3%) | 49 (5.2%) | 5 (0.5%) | 5 (0.5%) | * | discourse | 160 | 95 (59.4%) | 42 (26.2%) | 36 (22.5%) | 18 (11.2%) | 13 (8.1%) | | docker | 307 | 194 (63.2%) | 198 (64.5%) | 253 (82.4%) | 8 (2.6%) | 8 (2.6%) | * | electron | 163 | 132 (81.0%) | 38 (23.3%) | 39 (23.9%) | 6 (3.7%) | 6 (3.7%) | | git | 536 | 470 (87.7%) | 73 (13.6%) | 78 (14.6%) | 16 (3.0%) | 16 (3.0%) | * | gitflow | 127 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | ionic | 133 | 89 (66.9%) | 29 (21.8%) | 38 (28.6%) | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (0.8%) | | ipython | 482 | 362 (75.1%) | 167 (34.6%) | 169 (35.1%) | 11 (2.3%) | 11 (2.3%) | * | junit | 161 | 147 (91.3%) | 67 (41.6%) | 66 (41.0%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.6%) | * | lighttable | 15 | 5 (33.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | magit | 88 | 75 (85.2%) | 11 (12.5%) | 9 (10.2%) | 1 (1.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | | neural-style | 28 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | nodejs | 781 | 649 (83.1%) | 118 (15.1%) | 111 (14.2%) | 4 (0.5%) | 5 (0.6%) | * | phpmyadmin | 491 | 481 (98.0%) | 75 (15.3%) | 48 (9.8%) | 2 (0.4%) | 2 (0.4%) | * | react-native | 168 | 130 (77.4%) | 79 (47.0%) | 81 (48.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | rust | 171 | 128 (74.9%) | 30 (17.5%) | 27 (15.8%) | 16 (9.4%) | 14 (8.2%) | | spark | 186 | 149 (80.1%) | 52 (28.0%) | 52 (28.0%) | 2 (1.1%) | 2 (1.1%) | | tensorflow | 115 | 66 (57.4%) | 48 (41.7%) | 48 (41.7%) | 5 (4.3%) | 5 (4.3%) | | test-more | 19 | 15 (78.9%) | 2 (10.5%) | 2 (10.5%) | 1 (5.3%) | 1 (5.3%) | * | test-unit | 51 | 34 (66.7%) | 14 (27.5%) | 8 (15.7%) | 2 (3.9%) | 2 (3.9%) | * | xmonad | 23 | 22 (95.7%) | 2 (8.7%) | 2 (8.7%) | 1 (4.3%) | 1 (4.3%) | * | --------------------- | ----- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | | totals | 6668 | 4391 (65.9%) | 1496 (22.4%) | 1491 (22.4%) | 150 (2.2%) | 144 (2.2%) | | totals (training set) | 4552 | 3195 (70.2%) | 1053 (23.1%) | 1061 (23.3%) | 86 (1.9%) | 88 (1.9%) | | totals (test set) | 2116 | 1196 (56.5%) | 443 (20.9%) | 430 (20.3%) | 64 (3.0%) | 56 (2.6%) | In this table, the numbers are the count and percentage of human-rated sliders that the corresponding algorithm got *wrong*. The columns are * "repository" - the name of the repository used. I used the diffs between successive non-merge commits on the HEAD branch of the corresponding repository. * "count" - the number of sliders that were human-rated. I chose most, but not all, sliders to rate from those among which the various algorithms gave different answers. * "Git 2.9.0" - the default algorithm used by `git diff` in Git 2.9.0. * "compaction" - the heuristic used by `git diff --compaction-heuristic` in Git 2.9.0. * "compaction-fixed" - the heuristic used by `git diff --compaction-heuristic` after the fixes from earlier in this patch series. Note that the results are not dramatically different than those for "compaction". Both produce non-ideal diffs only about 1/3 as often as the default `git diff`. * "indent-1" - the new `--indent-heuristic` algorithm, using the first set of weighting factors, determined as described above. * "indent-2" - the new `--indent-heuristic` algorithm, using the final set of weighting factors, determined as described below. * `*` - indicates that repo was part of training set used to determine the first set of weighting factors. The fact that the heuristic performed nearly as well on the test set as on the training set in column "indent-1" is a good indication that the heuristic was not over-trained. Given that fact, I ran a second round of optimization, using the entire corpus as the training set. The resulting set of weights gave the results in column "indent-2". These are the weights included in this patch. The final result gives consistently and significantly better results across the whole corpus than either `git diff` or `git diff --compaction-heuristic`. It makes only about 1/30 as many errors as the former and about 1/10 as many errors as the latter. (And a good fraction of the remaining errors are for diffs that involve weirdly-formatted code, sometimes apparently machine-generated.) The tools that were used to do this optimization and analysis, along with the human-generated data values, are recorded in a separate project [1]. [1] https://github.com/mhagger/diff-slider-tools Original Git commit: 433860f3d0beb0c6f205290bd16cda413148f098
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The idea of xdl_change_compact() is fairly simple: * Proceed through groups of changed lines in the file to be compacted, keeping track of the corresponding location in the "other" file. * If possible, slide the group up and down to try to give the most aesthetically pleasing diff. Whenever it is slid, the current location in the other file needs to be adjusted. But these simple concepts are obfuscated by a lot of index handling that is written in terse, subtle, and varied patterns. I found it very hard to convince myself that the function was correct. So introduce a "struct group" that represents a group of changed lines in a file. Add some functions that perform elementary operations on groups: * Initialize a group to the first group in a file * Move to the next or previous group in a file * Slide a group up or down Even though the resulting code is longer, I think it is easier to understand and review. Its performance is not changed appreciably (though it would be if `group_next()` and `group_previous()` were not inlined). ...and in fact, the rewriting helped me discover another bug in the --compaction-heuristic code: The update of blank_lines was never done for the highest possible position of the group. This means that it could fail to slide the group to its highest possible position, even if that position had a blank line as its last line. So for example, it yielded the following diff: $ git diff --no-index --compaction-heuristic a.txt b.txt diff --git a/a.txt b/b.txt index e53969f..0d60c5fe 100644 --- a/a.txt +++ b/b.txt @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ 1 A + +B + +A 2 when in fact the following diff is better (according to the rules of --compaction-heuristic): $ git diff --no-index --compaction-heuristic a.txt b.txt diff --git a/a.txt b/b.txt index e53969f..0d60c5fe 100644 --- a/a.txt +++ b/b.txt @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ 1 +A + +B + A 2 The new code gives the bottom answer. Original Git commit: e8adf23d1ee97b57c8aea32ee8365203b77c0e42
Michael Haggerty committed -
There is no reason for it to take an array and two indexes as argument, as it only accesses two elements of the array. Original Git commit: 152598cbb667471c8f5be16e199922a41452b2d5
Michael Haggerty committed -
It is a common pattern in xdl_change_compact to check that hashes and strings match. The resulting code to perform this change causes very long lines and makes it hard to follow the intention. Introduce a helper function recs_match which performs both checks to increase code readability. Original Git commit: 92e5b62fec0e9b647429e8d3736c571c434dd375
Jacob Keller committed
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- 13 Sep, 2016 2 commits
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time: Export `git_time_monotonic`
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Vicent Marti committed
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- 09 Sep, 2016 1 commit
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cmake: add curl library path
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 06 Sep, 2016 2 commits
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Read binary patches (with no binary data)
Edward Thomson committed -
refspec: do not set empty rhs for fetch refspecs
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 05 Sep, 2016 2 commits
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When creating and printing diffs, deal with binary deltas that have binary data specially, versus diffs that have a binary file but lack the actual binary data.
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The `PKG_CHECK_MODULES` function searches a pkg-config module and then proceeds to set various variables containing information on how to link to the library. In contrast to the `FIND_PACKAGE` function, the library path set by `PKG_CHECK_MODULES` will not necessarily contain linking instructions with a complete path to the library, though. So when a library is not installed in a standard location, the linker might later fail due to being unable to locate it. While we already honor this when configuring libssh2 by adding `LIBSSH2_LIBRARY_DIRS` to the link directories, we fail to do so for libcurl, preventing us to build libgit2 on e.g. FreeBSD. Fix the issue by adding the curl library directory to the linker search path.
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 02 Sep, 2016 3 commits
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Instead of skipping printing a binary diff when there is no data, skip printing when we have a status of `UNMODIFIED`. This is more in-line with our internal data model and allows us to expand the notion of binary data. In the future, there may have no data because the files were unmodified (there was no data to produce) or it may have no data because there was no data given to us in a patch. We want to treat these cases separately.
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Edward Thomson committed
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patch_generate: only calculate binary diffs if requested
Edward Thomson committed
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- 01 Sep, 2016 1 commit
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When generating diffs for binary files, we load and decompress the blobs in order to generate the actual diff, which can be very costly. While we cannot avoid this for the case when we are called with the `GIT_DIFF_SHOW_BINARY` flag, we do not have to load the blobs in the case where this flag is not set, as the caller is expected to have no interest in the actual content of binary files. Fix the issue by only generating a binary diff when the caller is actually interested in the diff. As libgit2 uses heuristics to determine that a blob contains binary data by inspecting its size without loading from the ODB, this saves us quite some time when diffing in a repository with binary files.
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 30 Aug, 2016 3 commits
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tests: index: do not re-allocate index
Carlos Martín Nieto committed -
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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According to the reference the git_checkout_tree and git_checkout_head functions should accept NULL in the opts field This was broken since the opts field was dereferenced and thus lead to a crash.
Stefan Huber committed
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- 29 Aug, 2016 4 commits
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README: adjust URL to libqgit2 repository
Edward Thomson committed -
Plug a memory leak caused by re-allocating a `git_index` structure which has already been allocated by the test suite's initializer.
Patrick Steinhardt committed -
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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transports: http: set substream as disconnected after closing
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 26 Aug, 2016 1 commit
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Teach `git_patch_from_diff` about parsed diffs
Edward Thomson committed
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- 24 Aug, 2016 2 commits
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Ensure that `git_patch_from_diff` can return the patch for parsed diffs, not just generate a patch for a generated diff.
Edward Thomson committed -
filesystem_iterator: fixed double free on error
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 22 Aug, 2016 1 commit
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Jason Haslam committed
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- 17 Aug, 2016 4 commits
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Support index v4
Edward Thomson committed -
ignore: allow unignoring basenames in subdirectories
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Patrick Steinhardt committed
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When calling `http_connect` on a subtransport whose stream is already connected, we first close the stream in case no keep-alive is in use. When doing so, we do not reset the transport's connection state, though. Usually, this will do no harm in case the subsequent connect will succeed. But when the connection fails we are left with a substransport which is tagged as connected but which has no valid stream attached. Fix the issue by resetting the subtransport's connected-state when closing its stream in `http_connect`.
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 12 Aug, 2016 1 commit
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The .gitignore file allows for patterns which unignore previous ignore patterns. When unignoring a previous pattern, there are basically three cases how this is matched when no globbing is used: 1. when a previous file has been ignored, it can be unignored by using its exact name, e.g. foo/bar !foo/bar 2. when a file in a subdirectory has been ignored, it can be unignored by using its basename, e.g. foo/bar !bar 3. when all files with a basename are ignored, a specific file can be unignored again by specifying its path in a subdirectory, e.g. bar !foo/bar The first problem in libgit2 is that we did not correctly treat the second case. While we verified that the negative pattern matches the tail of the positive one, we did not verify if it only matches the basename of the positive pattern. So e.g. we would have also negated a pattern like foo/fruz_bar !bar Furthermore, we did not check for the third case, where a basename is being unignored in a certain subdirectory again. Both issues are fixed with this commit.
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 10 Aug, 2016 2 commits
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Support reading and writing index v4. Index v4 uses a very simple compression scheme for pathnames, but is otherwise similar to index v3. Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twitter.com>
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This code is ported from git.git Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
David Turner committed
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- 09 Aug, 2016 4 commits
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stransport memory management improvements
Carlos Martín Nieto committed -
tests: blob: remove unused callback function
Edward Thomson committed -
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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When failing to initialize a new stransport stream, we try to release already allocated memory by calling out to `git_stream_free`, which in turn called out to the stream's `free` function pointer. As we only initialize the function pointer later on, this leads to a `NULL` pointer exception. Furthermore, plug another memory leak when failing to create the SSL context.
Patrick Steinhardt committed
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- 08 Aug, 2016 2 commits
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odb: only provide the empty tree
Carlos Martín Nieto committed -
stransport: make internal functions static
Edward Thomson committed
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