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blame.c

/*
 * libgit2 "blame" example - shows how to use the blame API
 *
 * Written by the libgit2 contributors
 *
 * To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright
 * and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain
 * worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along
 * with this software. If not, see
 * <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
 */

#include "common.h"

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#define snprintf sprintf_s
#define strcasecmp strcmpi
#endif

This example demonstrates how to invoke the libgit2 blame API to roughly simulate the output of git blame and a few of its command line arguments.

struct opts {
  char *path;
  char *commitspec;
  int C;
  int M;
  int start_line;
  int end_line;
  int F;
};
static void parse_opts(struct opts *o, int argc, char *argv[]);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int i, line, break_on_null_hunk;
  char spec[1024] = {0};
  struct opts o = {0};
  const char *rawdata;
  git_repository *repo = NULL;
  git_revspec revspec = {0};
  git_blame_options blameopts = GIT_BLAME_OPTIONS_INIT;
  git_blame *blame = NULL;
  git_blob *blob;
  git_object *obj;

  git_threads_init();

  parse_opts(&o, argc, argv);
  if (o.M) blameopts.flags |= GIT_BLAME_TRACK_COPIES_SAME_COMMIT_MOVES;
  if (o.C) blameopts.flags |= GIT_BLAME_TRACK_COPIES_SAME_COMMIT_COPIES;
  if (o.F) blameopts.flags |= GIT_BLAME_FIRST_PARENT;

Open the repository.

  check_lg2(git_repository_open_ext(&repo, ".", 0, NULL), "Couldn't open repository", NULL);

The commit range comes in "commitish" form. Use the rev-parse API to nail down the end points.

  if (o.commitspec) {
    check_lg2(git_revparse(&revspec, repo, o.commitspec), "Couldn't parse commit spec", NULL);
    if (revspec.flags & GIT_REVPARSE_SINGLE) {
      git_oid_cpy(&blameopts.newest_commit, git_object_id(revspec.from));
      git_object_free(revspec.from);
    } else {
      git_oid_cpy(&blameopts.oldest_commit, git_object_id(revspec.from));
      git_oid_cpy(&blameopts.newest_commit, git_object_id(revspec.to));
      git_object_free(revspec.from);
      git_object_free(revspec.to);
    }
  }

Run the blame.

  check_lg2(git_blame_file(&blame, repo, o.path, &blameopts), "Blame error", NULL);

Get the raw data inside the blob for output. We use the commitish:path/to/file.txt format to find it.

  if (git_oid_iszero(&blameopts.newest_commit))
    strcpy(spec, "HEAD");
  else
    git_oid_tostr(spec, sizeof(spec), &blameopts.newest_commit);
  strcat(spec, ":");
  strcat(spec, o.path);

  check_lg2(git_revparse_single(&obj, repo, spec), "Object lookup error", NULL);
  check_lg2(git_blob_lookup(&blob, repo, git_object_id(obj)), "Blob lookup error", NULL);
  git_object_free(obj);

  rawdata = git_blob_rawcontent(blob);

Produce the output.

  line = 1;
  i = 0;
  break_on_null_hunk = 0;
  while (i < git_blob_rawsize(blob)) {
    const char *eol = strchr(rawdata+i, '\n');
    char oid[10] = {0};
    const git_blame_hunk *hunk = git_blame_get_hunk_byline(blame, line);

    if (break_on_null_hunk && !hunk) break;

    if (hunk) {
      char sig[128] = {0};
      break_on_null_hunk = 1;
      

      git_oid_tostr(oid, 10, &hunk->final_commit_id);
      snprintf(sig, 30, "%s <%s>", hunk->final_signature->name, hunk->final_signature->email);

      printf("%s ( %-30s %3d) %.*s\n",
          oid,
          sig,
          line,
          (int)(eol-rawdata-i),
          rawdata+i);
    }

    i = (int)(eol - rawdata + 1);
    line++;
  }

Cleanup.

Tell the user how to make this thing work.

static void usage(const char *msg, const char *arg)
{
  if (msg && arg)
    fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", msg, arg);
  else if (msg)
    fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", msg);
  fprintf(stderr, "usage: blame [options] [<commit range>] <path>\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "   <commit range>      example: `HEAD~10..HEAD`, or `1234abcd`\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "   -L <n,m>            process only line range n-m, counting from 1\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "   -M                  find line moves within and across files\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "   -C                  find line copies within and across files\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "   -F                  follow only the first parent commits\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "\n");
  exit(1);
}

Parse the arguments.

static void parse_opts(struct opts *o, int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int i;
  char *bare_args[3] = {0};

  if (argc < 2) usage(NULL, NULL);

  for (i=1; i<argc; i++) {
    char *a = argv[i];

    if (a[0] != '-') {
      int i=0;
      while (bare_args[i] && i < 3) ++i;
      if (i >= 3)
        usage("Invalid argument set", NULL);
      bare_args[i] = a;
    }
    else if (!strcmp(a, "--"))
      continue;
    else if (!strcasecmp(a, "-M"))
      o->M = 1;
    else if (!strcasecmp(a, "-C"))
      o->C = 1;
    else if (!strcasecmp(a, "-F"))
      o->F = 1;
    else if (!strcasecmp(a, "-L")) {
      i++; a = argv[i];
      if (i >= argc) fatal("Not enough arguments to -L", NULL);
      check_lg2(sscanf(a, "%d,%d", &o->start_line, &o->end_line)-2, "-L format error", NULL);
    }
    else {
      /* commit range */
      if (o->commitspec) fatal("Only one commit spec allowed", NULL);
      o->commitspec = a;
    }
  }

  /* Handle the bare arguments */
  if (!bare_args[0]) usage("Please specify a path", NULL);
  o->path = bare_args[0];
  if (bare_args[1]) {
    /* <commitspec> <path> */
    o->path = bare_args[1];
    o->commitspec = bare_args[0];
  }
  if (bare_args[2]) {
    /* <oldcommit> <newcommit> <path> */
    char spec[128] = {0};
    o->path = bare_args[2];
    sprintf(spec, "%s..%s", bare_args[0], bare_args[1]);
    o->commitspec = spec;
  }
}