diff: vary default prefix depending on what are compared

With a new configuration "diff.mnemonicprefix", "git diff" shows the
differences between various combinations of preimage and postimage trees
with prefixes different from the standard "a/" and "b/".  Hopefully this
will make the distinction stand out for some people.

    "git diff" compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
    "git diff HEAD" compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
    "git diff --cached" compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
    "git-diff HEAD:file1 file2" compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
    "git diff --no-index a b" compares two non-git things (1) and (2).

Because these mnemonics now have meanings, they are swapped when reverse
diff is in effect and this feature is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2008-08-18 20:08:09 -07:00
parent 53d1589ff6
commit a5a818ee48
7 changed files with 70 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ static int builtin_diff_b_f(struct rev_info *revs,
if (!(S_ISREG(st.st_mode) || S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)))
die("'%s': not a regular file or symlink", path);
diff_set_mnemonic_prefix(&revs->diffopt, "o/", "w/");
if (blob[0].mode == S_IFINVALID)
blob[0].mode = canon_mode(st.st_mode);