user/sven/git.git/git-difftool.perl, branch v2.7.0-rc2

difftool: ignore symbolic links in use_wt_file

2015-10-29T20:43:10Z

The caller is preparing a narrowed-down copy of the working tree and this function is asked if the path should be included in that copy. If we say yes, the path from the working tree will be either symlinked or copied into the narrowed-down copy. For any path that is a symbolic link, the caller later fixes up the narrowed-down copy by unlinking the path and replacing it with a regular file it writes out that mimics the way how "git diff" compares symbolic links. Let's answer "no, you do not want to copy/symlink the working tree file" for all symbolic links from this function, as we know the result will not be used because it will be overwritten anyway. Incidentally, this also stops the function from feeding a symbolic link in the working tree to hash-object, which is a wrong thing to do to begin with. The link may be pointing at a directory, or worse may be dangling (both would be noticed as an error). Even if the link points at a regular file, hashing the contents of a file that is pointed at by the link is not correct (Git hashes the contents of the link itself, not the pointee). Signed-off-by: David Aguilar Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'da/difftool'

2014-10-29T17:09:35Z

Allow diff tool backend to stop early by exiting with a non-zero status. * da/difftool: difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code difftool--helper: exit when reading a prompt answer fails

difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code

2014-10-28T17:36:57Z

Teach difftool to exit when a diff tool returns a non-zero exit code when either --trust-exit-code is specified or difftool.trustExitCode is true. Forward exit codes from invoked diff tools to the caller when --trust-exit-code is used. Suggested-by: Adri Farr <14farresa@gmail.com> Helped-by: Johannes Sixt Signed-off-by: David Aguilar Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

difftool: don't assume that default sh is sane

2014-10-15T21:12:20Z

git-difftool used to create a command list script containing $( ... ) and explicitly calls "sh -c" with this list. Instead, allow mergetool --tool-help to take a mode parameter and call mergetool directly to invoke the show_tool_help function. This mode parameter is intented for use solely by difftool. Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey Helped-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: David Aguilar Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

difftool: support repositories with .git-files

2014-02-24T17:53:57Z

Modern versions of "git submodule" use .git-files to setup the submodule directory. When run in a "git submodule"-created repository "git difftool --dir-diff" dies with the following error: $ git difftool -d HEAD~ fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree diff --raw --no-abbrev -z HEAD~: command returned error: 128 core.worktree is relative to the .git directory but the logic in find_worktree() does not account for it. Use `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` to find the worktree so that the dir-diff feature works inside a submodule. Reported-by: Gábor Lipták Helped-by: Jens Lehmann Helped-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: David Aguilar Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

difftool --dir-diff: allow changing any clean working tree file

2013-05-29T19:50:08Z

The temporary directory prepared by "difftool --dir-diff" to show the result of a change can be modified by the user via the tree diff program, and we try hard not to lose changes to them after tree diff program returns to us. However, the set of files to be copied back is computed differently between --symlinks and --no-symlinks modes. The former checks all paths that start out as identical to the working tree file, while the latter checks paths that already had a local modification in the working tree, allowing changes made in the tree diff program to paths that did not have any local change to be lost. Signed-off-by: Kenichi Saita Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

difftool: fix dir-diff when file does not exist in working tree

2013-05-17T18:46:53Z

Commit 02c5631 (difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree, 2013-03-14) does not handle the case where a file that is being compared does not exist in the working tree. Fix this by checking for existence explicitly before running git-hash-object. Reported-by: Kevin Bracey Signed-off-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

difftool: don't overwrite modified files

2013-03-29T22:16:04Z

After running the user's diff tool, git-difftool will copy any files that differ between the working tree and the temporary tree. This is useful when the user edits the file in their diff tool but is wrong if they edit the working tree file while examining the diff. Instead of copying unconditionally when the files differ, create and index from the working tree files and only copy the temporary file back if it was modified and the working tree file was not. If both files have been modified, print a warning and exit with an error. Note that we cannot use an existing index in git-difftool since those contain the modified files that need to be checked out but here we are looking at those files which are copied from the working tree and not checked out. These are precisely the files which are not in the existing indices. Signed-off-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix'

2013-03-28T21:37:22Z

"git difftool --dir-diff" made symlinks to working tree files when preparing a temporary directory structure, so that accidental edits of these files in the difftool are reflected back to the working tree, but the logic to decide when to do so was not quite right. * jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix: difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree difftool: avoid double slashes in symlink targets git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description

difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree

2013-03-14T21:33:06Z

Some users like to edit files in their diff tool when using "git difftool --dir-diff --symlink" to compare against the working tree but difftool currently only created symlinks when a file contains unstaged changes. Change this behaviour so that symlinks are created whenever the right-hand side of the comparison has the same SHA1 as the file in the working tree. Note that textconv filters are handled in the same way as by git-diff and if a clean filter is not the inverse of its smudge filter we already get a null SHA1 from "diff --raw" and will symlink the file without going through the new hash-object based check. Signed-off-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano