diff: support reading a file from stdin via "-"

This allows you to say

	echo Hello World | git diff x -

to compare the contents of file "x" with the line "Hello World".
This automatically switches to --no-index mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-25 23:36:10 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent ae792aa52b
commit 5332b2af10
2 changed files with 31 additions and 5 deletions

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diff.c
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@ -1389,6 +1389,22 @@ int diff_populate_filespec(struct diff_filespec *s, int size_only)
char *buf;
unsigned long size;
if (!strcmp(s->path, "-")) {
#define INCREMENT 1024
int i = INCREMENT;
size = 0;
buf = NULL;
while (i == INCREMENT) {
buf = xrealloc(buf, size + INCREMENT);
i = xread(0, buf + size, INCREMENT);
size += i;
}
s->should_munmap = 0;
s->data = buf;
s->size = size;
s->should_free = 1;
return 0;
}
if (lstat(s->path, &st) < 0) {
if (errno == ENOENT) {
err_empty:
@ -1689,6 +1705,10 @@ static void diff_fill_sha1_info(struct diff_filespec *one)
if (DIFF_FILE_VALID(one)) {
if (!one->sha1_valid) {
struct stat st;
if (!strcmp(one->path, "-")) {
hashcpy(one->sha1, null_sha1);
return;
}
if (lstat(one->path, &st) < 0)
die("stat %s", one->path);
if (index_path(one->sha1, one->path, &st, 0))