xdiff: implement a zealous diff3, or "zdiff3"

"zdiff3" is identical to ordinary diff3 except that it allows compaction
of common lines on the two sides of history at the beginning or end of
the conflict hunk.  For example, the following diff3 conflict:

    1
    2
    3
    4
    <<<<<<
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    ||||||
    5
    6
    ======
    A
    X
    C
    Y
    E
    >>>>>>
    7
    8
    9

has common lines 'A', 'C', and 'E' on the two sides.  With zdiff3, one
would instead get the following conflict:

    1
    2
    3
    4
    A
    <<<<<<
    B
    C
    D
    ||||||
    5
    6
    ======
    X
    C
    Y
    >>>>>>
    E
    7
    8
    9

Note that the common lines, 'A', and 'E' were moved outside the
conflict.  Unlike with the two-way conflicts from the 'merge'
conflictStyle, the zdiff3 conflict is NOT split into multiple conflict
regions to allow the common 'C' lines to be shown outside a conflict,
because zdiff3 shows the base version too and the base version cannot be
reasonably split.

Note also that the removing of lines common to the two sides might make
the remaining text inside the conflict region match the base text inside
the conflict region (for example, if the diff3 conflict had '5 6 E' on
the right side of the conflict, then the common line 'E' would be moved
outside and both the base and right side's remaining conflict text would
be the lines '5' and '6').  This has the potential to surprise users and
make them think there should not have been a conflict, but there
definitely was a conflict and it should remain.

Based-on-patch-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Co-authored-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 58 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/xdiff/xdiff.h b/xdiff/xdiff.h
index b29deca5de..72e25a9ffa 100644
--- a/xdiff/xdiff.h
+++ b/xdiff/xdiff.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /* merge output styles */
 #define XDL_MERGE_DIFF3 1
+#define XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_DIFF3 2
 
 typedef struct s_mmfile {
 	char *ptr;
diff --git a/xdiff/xmerge.c b/xdiff/xmerge.c
index 1659edb453..fff0b594f9 100644
--- a/xdiff/xmerge.c
+++ b/xdiff/xmerge.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static int fill_conflict_hunk(xdfenv_t *xe1, const char *name1,
 	size += xdl_recs_copy(xe1, m->i1, m->chg1, needs_cr, 1,
 			      dest ? dest + size : NULL);
 
-	if (style == XDL_MERGE_DIFF3) {
+	if (style == XDL_MERGE_DIFF3 || style == XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_DIFF3) {
 		/* Shared preimage */
 		if (!dest) {
 			size += marker_size + 1 + needs_cr + marker3_size;
@@ -322,6 +322,40 @@ static int xdl_fill_merge_buffer(xdfenv_t *xe1, const char *name1,
 	return size;
 }
 
+static int recmatch(xrecord_t *rec1, xrecord_t *rec2, unsigned long flags)
+{
+	return xdl_recmatch(rec1->ptr, rec1->size,
+			    rec2->ptr, rec2->size, flags);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Remove any common lines from the beginning and end of the conflicted region.
+ */
+static void xdl_refine_zdiff3_conflicts(xdfenv_t *xe1, xdfenv_t *xe2, xdmerge_t *m,
+		xpparam_t const *xpp)
+{
+	xrecord_t **rec1 = xe1->xdf2.recs, **rec2 = xe2->xdf2.recs;
+	for (; m; m = m->next) {
+		/* let's handle just the conflicts */
+		if (m->mode)
+			continue;
+
+		while(m->chg1 && m->chg2 &&
+		      recmatch(rec1[m->i1], rec2[m->i2], xpp->flags)) {
+			m->chg1--;
+			m->chg2--;
+			m->i1++;
+			m->i2++;
+		}
+		while (m->chg1 && m->chg2 &&
+		       recmatch(rec1[m->i1 + m->chg1 - 1],
+				rec2[m->i2 + m->chg2 - 1], xpp->flags)) {
+			m->chg1--;
+			m->chg2--;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Sometimes, changes are not quite identical, but differ in only a few
  * lines. Try hard to show only these few lines as conflicting.
@@ -482,7 +516,22 @@ static int xdl_do_merge(xdfenv_t *xe1, xdchange_t *xscr1,
 	int style = xmp->style;
 	int favor = xmp->favor;
 
-	if (style == XDL_MERGE_DIFF3) {
+	/*
+	 * XDL_MERGE_DIFF3 does not attempt to refine conflicts by looking
+	 * at common areas of sides 1 & 2, because the base (side 0) does
+	 * not match and is being shown.  Similarly, simplification of
+	 * non-conflicts is also skipped due to the skipping of conflict
+	 * refinement.
+	 *
+	 * XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_DIFF3, on the other hand, will attempt to
+	 * refine conflicts looking for common areas of sides 1 & 2.
+	 * However, since the base is being shown and does not match,
+	 * it will only look for common areas at the beginning or end
+	 * of the conflict block.  Since XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_DIFF3's
+	 * conflict refinement is much more limited in this fashion, the
+	 * conflict simplification will be skipped.
+	 */
+	if (style == XDL_MERGE_DIFF3 || style == XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_DIFF3) {
 		/*
 		 * "diff3 -m" output does not make sense for anything
 		 * more aggressive than XDL_MERGE_EAGER.
@@ -603,10 +652,12 @@ static int xdl_do_merge(xdfenv_t *xe1, xdchange_t *xscr1,
 	if (!changes)
 		changes = c;
 	/* refine conflicts */
-	if (XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS <= level &&
-	    (xdl_refine_conflicts(xe1, xe2, changes, xpp) < 0 ||
-	     xdl_simplify_non_conflicts(xe1, changes,
-					XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS < level) < 0)) {
+	if (style == XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_DIFF3) {
+		xdl_refine_zdiff3_conflicts(xe1, xe2, changes, xpp);
+	} else if (XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS <= level &&
+		   (xdl_refine_conflicts(xe1, xe2, changes, xpp) < 0 ||
+		    xdl_simplify_non_conflicts(xe1, changes,
+					       XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS < level) < 0)) {
 		xdl_cleanup_merge(changes);
 		return -1;
 	}