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author | Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> | 2018-01-05 01:50:42 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-01-05 02:02:40 +0300 |
commit | 15af58c1adba431c216e2a45fa0d22944560ba02 (patch) | |
tree | 7e42bbe8456b5503236458a71abe6ae3827ae6e4 /t | |
parent | cf63051adad03e827e0313a57db0a79ad39a04a0 (diff) |
diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blob
Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])
One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs,
such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as
'<commit-ish>:<path>'. This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer
number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right.
The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that
could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that
removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches.
Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:
$ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile
b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"
we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b. The
reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil
merges that are not found using this new mechanism.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 't')
-rwxr-xr-x | t/t4064-diff-oidfind.sh | 68 |
1 files changed, 68 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/t/t4064-diff-oidfind.sh b/t/t4064-diff-oidfind.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..3bdf317af8 --- /dev/null +++ b/t/t4064-diff-oidfind.sh @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +test_description='test finding specific blobs in the revision walking' +. ./test-lib.sh + +test_expect_success 'setup ' ' + git commit --allow-empty -m "empty initial commit" && + + echo "Hello, world!" >greeting && + git add greeting && + git commit -m "add the greeting blob" && # borrowed from Git from the Bottom Up + git tag -m "the blob" greeting $(git rev-parse HEAD:greeting) && + + echo asdf >unrelated && + git add unrelated && + git commit -m "unrelated history" && + + git revert HEAD^ && + + git commit --allow-empty -m "another unrelated commit" +' + +test_expect_success 'find the greeting blob' ' + cat >expect <<-EOF && + Revert "add the greeting blob" + add the greeting blob + EOF + + git log --format=%s --find-object=greeting^{blob} >actual && + + test_cmp expect actual +' + +test_expect_success 'setup a tree' ' + mkdir a && + echo asdf >a/file && + git add a/file && + git commit -m "add a file in a subdirectory" +' + +test_expect_success 'find a tree' ' + cat >expect <<-EOF && + add a file in a subdirectory + EOF + + git log --format=%s -t --find-object=HEAD:a >actual && + + test_cmp expect actual +' + +test_expect_success 'setup a submodule' ' + test_create_repo sub && + test_commit -C sub sub && + git submodule add ./sub sub && + git commit -a -m "add sub" +' + +test_expect_success 'find a submodule' ' + cat >expect <<-EOF && + add sub + EOF + + git log --format=%s --find-object=HEAD:sub >actual && + + test_cmp expect actual +' + +test_done |