From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] Fix color handling in git add -i
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:40:32 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2011160036100.18437@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112184026.GB701197@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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Hi Peff,
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 03:20:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > > $ git -c interactive.difffilter='diff-so-fancy' add -p
> > > ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> > > modified: file
> > > ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> > > @ file:1 @
> > > old
> > > new
> > > (1/1) Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,e,?]?
> >
> > It might _seem_ that it works. But try to split a hunk. I did this with
> > the test case (interrupting it just before running `add -p`):
>
> Yes, there are definitely problems with how diff-so-fancy represents
> things (because they don't maintain a 1-to-1 correspondence). You should
> generally get a complaint like:
>
> $ git -c interactive.difffilter='diff-so-fancy' add -p
> fatal: mismatched output from interactive.diffFilter
> hint: Your filter must maintain a one-to-one correspondence
> hint: between its input and output lines.
>
> The diff-so-fancy folks have asked me about this, and I've made clear
> the problem to them, and that the solution is to have a mode which
> maintains the line correspondence. AFAIK there's no fix yet. I don't
> know how many people are actually using it in practice in its current
> buggy state.
>
> There's a big thread here:
>
> https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy/issues/35
>
> I don't really recommend reading the whole thing. Beyond what I just
> said, the interesting bits are:
>
> - people recommend using the "delta" tool; it has a "--color-only"
> option which does just diff-highlight-style coloring, but doesn't
> break line correspondence
>
> - somebody suggested instead of using interactive.difffilter, to add
> an option to show each hunk in an individual pager command. So
> add-interactive would never see the "fancy" version at all, but it
> would be generated on the fly when the user sees it (and that filter
> would have to be able to handle seeing individual hunks without the
> diff header).
>
> All of which is to say that the current state is a bit of a mess, and I
> don't consider it completely necessary to fix it before the builtin
> version becomes the default. But:
>
> - I think we should expect some possible complaints / bug reports
> from fringe users of the already-somewhat-broken state
>
> - IMHO the parsing of the filtered version done by the builtin is
> going in the wrong direction (see my other mail for an elaboration)
It's a little bit of a surprise that this is the first time I hear about
this.
The way _I_ would go about fixing this is to look for a tell-tale that
we're looking at a `diff-so-fancy` style output, e.g. by looking for that
horizontal line, then adding special code to handle that.
This is not a minor undertaking, and it would currently require _two_
implementations: the Perl version and the built-in version. They would
look _very_ different from one another. Therefore, I would probably either
wait until the Perl version is retired, or selectively only adjust the
built-in version, if _I_ was to implement this.
But given that it does not work right now, and given that it has not been
working for a long time, I think it does not hurt so much if it is left in
the current state for a bit longer. I would love to focus on the patch
series that kicked off this discussion first, getting it done, before I
think about other `add -p` aspects.
Ciao,
Dscho
>
> > > While it may touch on some of the coloring code, it's otherwise
> > > orthogonal to the fixes here. And while the fix is likely to be to make
> > > render_hunk() stop re-coloring in the non-edit cases, your more-robust
> > > test here will still be checking what you expect (because it really is
> > > triggering the edit case, not relying on the extra coloring to see the
> > > effect of in-process color config).
> >
> > I don't actually think that we _can_ stop re-coloring the hunk header in
> > the general case because we need to keep this working even for split
> > hunks. It would be a very bad idea to make it work for non-split cases and
> > then something like `die()` only when the hunk is split. Better re-color
> > all of them, then, to not even risk that situation.
>
> Yeah, obviously calling die() in the split case is bad. And the fact
> that newly-created split hunk headers are not filtered the same way as
> the original hunk headers isn't ideal. But it's a pretty easy fix in the
> perl version, and not in the builtin version.
>
> -Peff
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 23:42 [PATCH 0/9] Fix color handling in git add -i Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 1/9] add -i (built-in): do show an error message for incorrect inputs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 2/9] add -i (built-in): send error messages to stderr Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 3/9] add -i: use `reset_color` consistently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 4/9] add -i (built-in): prevent the `reset` "color" from being configured Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 5/9] add -i (built-in): use correct names to load color.diff.* config Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 6/9] add -p (built-in): do not color the progress indicator separately Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 7/9] add -i (built-in): use the same indentation as the Perl version Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 8/9] add -i (Perl version): include indentation in the colored header Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-10 23:42 ` [PATCH 9/9] add -i: verify in the tests that colors can be overridden Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 2:35 ` Jeff King
2020-11-11 15:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-11 18:07 ` Jeff King
2020-11-12 14:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-12 18:29 ` Jeff King
2020-11-15 23:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-17 1:44 ` Jeff King
2020-11-11 2:36 ` [PATCH 0/9] Fix color handling in git add -i Jeff King
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] add -i (built-in): do show an error message for incorrect inputs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] add -i (built-in): send error messages to stderr Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] add -p (built-in): imitate `xdl_format_hunk_hdr()` generating hunk headers Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] add -i: use `reset_color` consistently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-13 12:03 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-13 13:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-13 16:04 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-15 23:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] add -i (built-in): prevent the `reset` "color" from being configured Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] add -i (built-in): use correct names to load color.diff.* config Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] add -p (built-in): do not color the progress indicator separately Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-13 12:07 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-13 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-13 16:06 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-15 23:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] add -i (built-in): use the same indentation as the Perl version Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] add -i (Perl version): include indentation in the colored header Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-13 12:11 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-13 13:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-13 16:12 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-15 23:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] add -p: prefer color.diff.context over color.diff.plain Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-13 14:04 ` Philippe Blain
2020-11-15 23:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-13 14:08 ` Phillip Wood
2020-11-16 0:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-11 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] add -i: verify in the tests that colors can be overridden Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Fix color handling in git add -i Jeff King
2020-11-12 14:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-12 18:40 ` Jeff King
2020-11-15 23:40 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2020-11-17 1:49 ` Jeff King
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] add -i (built-in): do show an error message for incorrect inputs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] add -i (built-in): send error messages to stderr Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] add -p (built-in): imitate `xdl_format_hunk_hdr()` generating hunk headers Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] add -i: use `reset_color` consistently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] add -i (built-in): prevent the `reset` "color" from being configured Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] add -i (built-in): use correct names to load color.diff.* config Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] add -p (built-in): do not color the progress indicator separately Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] add -i (built-in): use the same indentation as the Perl version Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] add -i (Perl version): color header to match the C version Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] add -p: prefer color.diff.context over color.diff.plain Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-16 16:08 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] add -i: verify in the tests that colors can be overridden Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-17 1:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] Fix color handling in git add -i Jeff King
2020-11-17 2:05 ` Jeff King
2020-11-25 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
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