Merge branch 'ct/diff-with-merge-base-clarification' into jch

"git diff" used to take arguments in random and nonsense range
notation, e.g. "git diff A..B C", "git diff A..B C...D", etc.,
which has been cleaned up.

* ct/diff-with-merge-base-clarification:
  Documentation: usage for diff combined commits
  git diff: improve range handling
  t/t3430: avoid undefined git diff behavior

Documentation/git-diff.txt

@@ -11,15 +11,17 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git diff' [<options>] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]
 'git diff' [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]
-'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]
+'git diff' [<options>] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...]
+'git diff' [<options>] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]
 'git diff' [<options>] <blob> <blob>
 'git diff' [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Show changes between the working tree and the index or a tree, changes
-between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, changes between
+between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, changes resulting
-two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk.
+from a merge, changes between two blob objects, or changes between two
+files on disk.
 
 'git diff' [<options>] [--] [<path>...]::
 
@@ -67,6 +69,15 @@ two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk.
 	one side is omitted, it will have the same effect as
 	using HEAD instead.
 
+'git diff' [<options>] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...]::
+
+	This form is to view the results of a merge commit.  The first
+	listed <commit> must be the merge itself; the remaining two or
+	more commits should be its parents.  A convenient way to produce
+	the desired set of revisions is to use the {caret}@ suffix.
+	For instance, if `master` names a merge commit, `git diff master
+	master^@` gives the same combined diff as `git show master`.
+
 'git diff' [<options>] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
 
 	This form is to view the changes on the branch containing
@@ -196,7 +207,8 @@ linkgit:git-difftool[1],
 linkgit:git-log[1],
 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7],
 linkgit:git-format-patch[1],
-linkgit:git-apply[1]
+linkgit:git-apply[1],
+linkgit:git-show[1]
 
 GIT
 ---

builtin/diff.c

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #define USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "config.h"
+#include "ewah/ewok.h"
 #include "lockfile.h"
 #include "color.h"
 #include "commit.h"
@@ -23,7 +24,13 @@
 #define DIFF_NO_INDEX_IMPLICIT 2
 
 static const char builtin_diff_usage[] =
-"git diff [<options>] [<commit> [<commit>]] [--] [<path>...]";
+"git diff [<options>] [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]\n"
+"   or: git diff [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]\n"
+"   or: git diff [<options>] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...]\n"
+"   or: git diff [<options>] <commit>...<commit>] [--] [<path>...]\n"
+"   or: git diff [<options>] <blob> <blob>]\n"
+"   or: git diff [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path>]\n"
+COMMON_DIFF_OPTIONS_HELP;
 
 static const char *blob_path(struct object_array_entry *entry)
 {
@@ -254,6 +261,108 @@ static int builtin_diff_files(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **argv
 	return run_diff_files(revs, options);
 }
 
+struct symdiff {
+	struct bitmap *skip;
+	int warn;
+	const char *base, *left, *right;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Check for symmetric-difference arguments, and if present, arrange
+ * everything we need to know to handle them correctly.  As a bonus,
+ * weed out all bogus range-based revision specifications, e.g.,
+ * "git diff A..B C..D" or "git diff A..B C" get rejected.
+ *
+ * For an actual symmetric diff, *symdiff is set this way:
+ *
+ *  - its skip is non-NULL and marks *all* rev->pending.objects[i]
+ *    indices that the caller should ignore (extra merge bases, of
+ *    which there might be many, and A in A...B).  Note that the
+ *    chosen merge base and right side are NOT marked.
+ *  - warn is set if there are multiple merge bases.
+ *  - base, left, and right point to the names to use in a
+ *    warning about multiple merge bases.
+ *
+ * If there is no symmetric diff argument, sym->skip is NULL and
+ * sym->warn is cleared.  The remaining fields are not set.
+ */
+static void symdiff_prepare(struct rev_info *rev, struct symdiff *sym)
+{
+	int i, is_symdiff = 0, basecount = 0, othercount = 0;
+	int lpos = -1, rpos = -1, basepos = -1;
+	struct bitmap *map = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Use the whence fields to find merge bases and left and
+	 * right parts of symmetric difference, so that we do not
+	 * depend on the order that revisions are parsed.  If there
+	 * are any revs that aren't from these sources, we have a
+	 * "git diff C A...B" or "git diff A...B C" case.  Or we
+	 * could even get "git diff A...B C...E", for instance.
+	 *
+	 * If we don't have just one merge base, we pick one
+	 * at random.
+	 *
+	 * NB: REV_CMD_LEFT, REV_CMD_RIGHT are also used for A..B,
+	 * so we must check for SYMMETRIC_LEFT too.  The two arrays
+	 * rev->pending.objects and rev->cmdline.rev are parallel.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < rev->cmdline.nr; i++) {
+		struct object *obj = rev->pending.objects[i].item;
+		switch (rev->cmdline.rev[i].whence) {
+		case REV_CMD_MERGE_BASE:
+			if (basepos < 0)
+				basepos = i;
+			basecount++;
+			break;		/* do mark all bases */
+		case REV_CMD_LEFT:
+			if (lpos >= 0)
+				usage(builtin_diff_usage);
+			lpos = i;
+			if (obj->flags & SYMMETRIC_LEFT) {
+				is_symdiff = 1;
+				break;	/* do mark A */
+			}
+			continue;
+		case REV_CMD_RIGHT:
+			if (rpos >= 0)
+				usage(builtin_diff_usage);
+			rpos = i;
+			continue;	/* don't mark B */
+		case REV_CMD_PARENTS_ONLY:
+		case REV_CMD_REF:
+		case REV_CMD_REV:
+			othercount++;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (map == NULL)
+			map = bitmap_new();
+		bitmap_set(map, i);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Forbid any additional revs for both A...B and A..B.
+	 */
+	if (lpos >= 0 && othercount > 0)
+		usage(builtin_diff_usage);
+
+	if (!is_symdiff) {
+		bitmap_free(map);
+		sym->warn = 0;
+		sym->skip = NULL;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	sym->left = rev->pending.objects[lpos].name;
+	sym->right = rev->pending.objects[rpos].name;
+	sym->base = rev->pending.objects[basepos].name;
+	if (basecount == 0)
+		die(_("%s...%s: no merge base"), sym->left, sym->right);
+	bitmap_unset(map, basepos);	/* unmark the base we want */
+	sym->warn = basecount > 1;
+	sym->skip = map;
+}
+
 int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -263,6 +372,7 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct object_array_entry *blob[2];
 	int nongit = 0, no_index = 0;
 	int result = 0;
+	struct symdiff sdiff;
 
 	/*
 	 * We could get N tree-ish in the rev.pending_objects list.
@@ -382,6 +492,7 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		}
 	}
 
+	symdiff_prepare(&rev, &sdiff);
 	for (i = 0; i < rev.pending.nr; i++) {
 		struct object_array_entry *entry = &rev.pending.objects[i];
 		struct object *obj = entry->item;
@@ -396,6 +507,8 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			obj = &get_commit_tree(((struct commit *)obj))->object;
 
 		if (obj->type == OBJ_TREE) {
+			if (sdiff.skip && bitmap_get(sdiff.skip, i))
+				continue;
 			obj->flags |= flags;
 			add_object_array(obj, name, &ent);
 		} else if (obj->type == OBJ_BLOB) {
@@ -437,21 +550,12 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		usage(builtin_diff_usage);
 	else if (ent.nr == 1)
 		result = builtin_diff_index(&rev, argc, argv);
-	else if (ent.nr == 2)
+	else if (ent.nr == 2) {
+		if (sdiff.warn)
+			warning(_("%s...%s: multiple merge bases, using %s"),
+				sdiff.left, sdiff.right, sdiff.base);
 		result = builtin_diff_tree(&rev, argc, argv,
 					   &ent.objects[0], &ent.objects[1]);
-	else if (ent.objects[0].item->flags & UNINTERESTING) {
-		/*
-		 * diff A...B where there is at least one merge base
-		 * between A and B.  We have ent.objects[0] ==
-		 * merge-base, ent.objects[ents-2] == A, and
-		 * ent.objects[ents-1] == B.  Show diff between the
-		 * base and B.  Note that we pick one merge base at
-		 * random if there are more than one.
-		 */
-		result = builtin_diff_tree(&rev, argc, argv,
-					   &ent.objects[0],
-					   &ent.objects[ent.nr-1]);
 	} else
 		result = builtin_diff_combined(&rev, argc, argv,
 					       ent.objects, ent.nr);

t/t3430-rebase-merges.sh

@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ test_expect_success 'with --autosquash and --exec' '
 	git commit --fixup B B.t &&
 	write_script show.sh <<-\EOF &&
 	subject="$(git show -s --format=%s HEAD)"
-	content="$(git diff HEAD^! | tail -n 1)"
+	content="$(git diff HEAD^ HEAD | tail -n 1)"
 	echo "$subject: $content"
 	EOF
 	test_tick &&

t/t4068-diff-symmetric.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='behavior of diff with symmetric-diff setups'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+# build these situations:
+#  - normal merge with one merge base (br1...b2r);
+#  - criss-cross merge ie 2 merge bases (br1...master);
+#  - disjoint subgraph (orphan branch, br3...master).
+#
+#     B---E   <-- master
+#    / \ /
+#   A   X
+#    \ / \
+#     C---D--G   <-- br1
+#      \    /
+#       ---F   <-- br2
+#
+#  H  <-- br3
+#
+# We put files into a few commits so that we can verify the
+# output as well.
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	git commit --allow-empty -m A &&
+	echo b >b &&
+	git add b &&
+	git commit -m B &&
+	git checkout -b br1 HEAD^ &&
+	echo c >c &&
+	git add c &&
+	git commit -m C &&
+	git tag commit-C &&
+	git merge -m D master &&
+	git tag commit-D &&
+	git checkout master &&
+	git merge -m E commit-C &&
+	git checkout -b br2 commit-C &&
+	echo f >f &&
+	git add f &&
+	git commit -m F &&
+	git checkout br1 &&
+	git merge -m G br2 &&
+	git checkout --orphan br3 &&
+	git commit -m H
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with one merge base' '
+	git diff commit-D...br1 >tmp &&
+	tail -n 1 tmp >actual &&
+	echo +f >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+# The output (in tmp) can have +b or +c depending
+# on which merge base (commit B or C) is picked.
+# It should have one of those two, which comes out
+# to seven lines.
+test_expect_success 'diff with two merge bases' '
+	git diff br1...master >tmp 2>err &&
+	test_line_count = 7 tmp &&
+	test_line_count = 1 err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with no merge bases' '
+	test_must_fail git diff br2...br3 >tmp 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "fatal: br2...br3: no merge base" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with too many symmetric differences' '
+	test_must_fail git diff br1...master br2...br3 >tmp 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with symmetric difference and extraneous arg' '
+	test_must_fail git diff master br1...master >tmp 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with two ranges' '
+	test_must_fail git diff master br1..master br2..br3 >tmp 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with ranges and extra arg' '
+	test_must_fail git diff master br1..master commit-D >tmp 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_done