Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:02:16

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  [off-list ref] writes:
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If we are given two SHA-1 and asked to determine if they are different
(but not _what_ differences), we know right away by comparing SHA-1.

A side effect of this patch is, because large files are marked binary,
diff-tree will not need to unpack them. 'diff-index --cached' will not
either. But 'diff-files' still does.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <redacted>
---
 diff.c           | 13 +++++++++++++
 t/t1050-large.sh |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index d381a6f..b85bcfb 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -2324,6 +2324,19 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
 	} else if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(o, TEXT) &&
 	    ( (!textconv_one && diff_filespec_is_binary(one)) ||
 	      (!textconv_two && diff_filespec_is_binary(two)) )) {
+		if (!one->data && !two->data &&
+		    S_ISREG(one->mode) && S_ISREG(two->mode) &&
+		    !DIFF_OPT_TST(o, BINARY)) {
+			if (!hashcmp(one->sha1, two->sha1)) {
+				if (must_show_header)
+					fprintf(o->file, "%s", header.buf);
+				goto free_ab_and_return;
+			}
+			fprintf(o->file, "%s", header.buf);
+			fprintf(o->file, "%sBinary files %s and %s differ\n",
+				line_prefix, lbl[0], lbl[1]);
+			goto free_ab_and_return;
+		}
A tangent.

I think one and two can point at the same object only when this
filepair is involved in rename/copy.  In other words, one and two
with the same <mode,sha1,name> would not be given to this code.  And
must-show-header would be set to true long before we get here in
fill-metainfo in such a case.

I think this new code and the original below which you copied this
one from can probably be simplified.  It already felt wrong to see
two copies of "fprintf(o->file "%s", header.buf)" and now we have
four of them.  Because this is a copy-and-paste of the identical
logic from below, I do not want you to attempt fixing this tangent
in this patch, though.

Thanks.
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 		if (fill_mmfile(&mf1, one) < 0 || fill_mmfile(&mf2, two) < 0)
 			die("unable to read files to diff");
 		/* Quite common confusing case */
diff --git a/t/t1050-large.sh b/t/t1050-large.sh
index 711f22c..b294963 100755
--- a/t/t1050-large.sh
+++ b/t/t1050-large.sh
@@ -116,6 +116,14 @@ test_expect_success 'diff --stat' '
 	git diff --stat HEAD^ HEAD
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'diff' '
+	git diff HEAD^ HEAD
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff --cached' '
+	git diff --cached HEAD^
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'hash-object' '
 	git hash-object large1
 '
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