Merge branch 'jt/diff-anchored-patience'

"git diff" learned a variant of the "--patience" algorithm, to
which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be used as
anchoring points.

* jt/diff-anchored-patience:
  diff: support anchoring line(s)

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index b3ef25c..516f68d 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -3210,6 +3210,8 @@ static void builtin_diff(const char *name_a,
 		ecbdata.opt = o;
 		ecbdata.header = header.len ? &header : NULL;
 		xpp.flags = o->xdl_opts;
+		xpp.anchors = o->anchors;
+		xpp.anchors_nr = o->anchors_nr;
 		xecfg.ctxlen = o->context;
 		xecfg.interhunkctxlen = o->interhunkcontext;
 		xecfg.flags = XDL_EMIT_FUNCNAMES;
@@ -3302,6 +3304,8 @@ static void builtin_diffstat(const char *name_a, const char *name_b,
 		memset(&xpp, 0, sizeof(xpp));
 		memset(&xecfg, 0, sizeof(xecfg));
 		xpp.flags = o->xdl_opts;
+		xpp.anchors = o->anchors;
+		xpp.anchors_nr = o->anchors_nr;
 		xecfg.ctxlen = o->context;
 		xecfg.interhunkctxlen = o->interhunkcontext;
 		if (xdi_diff_outf(&mf1, &mf2, diffstat_consume, diffstat,
@@ -4594,9 +4598,18 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options,
 		DIFF_XDL_SET(options, INDENT_HEURISTIC);
 	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--no-indent-heuristic"))
 		DIFF_XDL_CLR(options, INDENT_HEURISTIC);
-	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--patience"))
+	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--patience")) {
+		int i;
 		options->xdl_opts = DIFF_WITH_ALG(options, PATIENCE_DIFF);
-	else if (!strcmp(arg, "--histogram"))
+		/*
+		 * Both --patience and --anchored use PATIENCE_DIFF
+		 * internally, so remove any anchors previously
+		 * specified.
+		 */
+		for (i = 0; i < options->anchors_nr; i++)
+			free(options->anchors[i]);
+		options->anchors_nr = 0;
+	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--histogram"))
 		options->xdl_opts = DIFF_WITH_ALG(options, HISTOGRAM_DIFF);
 	else if ((argcount = parse_long_opt("diff-algorithm", av, &optarg))) {
 		long value = parse_algorithm_value(optarg);
@@ -4608,6 +4621,11 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options,
 		options->xdl_opts &= ~XDF_DIFF_ALGORITHM_MASK;
 		options->xdl_opts |= value;
 		return argcount;
+	} else if (skip_prefix(arg, "--anchored=", &arg)) {
+		options->xdl_opts = DIFF_WITH_ALG(options, PATIENCE_DIFF);
+		ALLOC_GROW(options->anchors, options->anchors_nr + 1,
+			   options->anchors_alloc);
+		options->anchors[options->anchors_nr++] = xstrdup(arg);
 	}
 
 	/* flags options */