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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-03-22 18:52:13 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-03-23 13:52:49 -0700
commit90d43b07687fdc51d1f2fc14948df538dc45584b (patch)
treec829369711eb89ebe5b11c164684269f721838e4 /diffcore-rename.c
parentf8582cad8d11cae15e73fe5213b6180ee4b9fcce (diff)
downloadgit-90d43b07687fdc51d1f2fc14948df538dc45584b.tar.gz
teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content
Our rename detection is a heuristic, matching pairs of removed and added files with similar or identical content. It's unlikely to be wrong when there is actual content to compare, and we already take care not to do inexact rename detection when there is not enough content to produce good results. However, we always do exact rename detection, even when the blob is tiny or empty. It's easy to get false positives with an empty blob, simply because it is an obvious content to use as a boilerplate (e.g., when telling git that an empty directory is worth tracking via an empty .gitignore). This patch lets callers specify whether or not they are interested in using empty files as rename sources and destinations. The default is "yes", keeping the original behavior. It works by detecting the empty-blob sha1 for rename sources and destinations. One more flexible alternative would be to allow the caller to specify a minimum size for a blob to be "interesting" for rename detection. But that would catch small boilerplate files, not large ones (e.g., if you had the GPL COPYING file in many directories). A better alternative would be to allow a "-rename" gitattribute to allow boilerplate files to be marked as such. I'll leave the complexity of that solution until such time as somebody actually wants it. The complaints we've seen so far revolve around empty files, so let's start with the simple thing. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'diffcore-rename.c')
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diff --git a/diffcore-rename.c b/diffcore-rename.c
index f639601c76..216a7a4bbc 100644
--- a/diffcore-rename.c
+++ b/diffcore-rename.c
@@ -512,9 +512,15 @@ void diffcore_rename(struct diff_options *options)
else if (options->single_follow &&
strcmp(options->single_follow, p->two->path))
continue; /* not interested */
+ else if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(options, RENAME_EMPTY) &&
+ is_empty_blob_sha1(p->two->sha1))
+ continue;
else
locate_rename_dst(p->two, 1);
}
+ else if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(options, RENAME_EMPTY) &&
+ is_empty_blob_sha1(p->one->sha1))
+ continue;
else if (!DIFF_PAIR_UNMERGED(p) && !DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->two)) {
/*
* If the source is a broken "delete", and