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This patch gives life to the skeleton added in the previous patch. The motivation for converting the difftool is that Perl scripts are not at all native on Windows, and that `git difftool` therefore is pretty slow on that platform, when there is no good reason for it to be slow. In addition, Perl does not really have access to Git's internals. That means that any script will always have to jump through unnecessary hoops, and it will often need to perform unnecessary work (e.g. when reading the entire config every time `git config` is called to query a single config value). The current version of the builtin difftool does not, however, make full use of the internals but instead chooses to spawn a couple of Git processes, still, to make for an easier conversion. There remains a lot of room for improvement, left later. Note: to play it safe, the original difftool is still called unless the config setting difftool.useBuiltin is set to true. The reason: this new, experimental, builtin difftool was shipped as part of Git for Windows v2.11.0, to allow for easier large-scale testing, but of course as an opt-in feature. The speedup is actually more noticable on Linux than on Windows: a quick test shows that t7800-difftool.sh runs in (2.183s/0.052s/0.108s) (real/user/sys) in a Linux VM, down from (6.529s/3.112s/0.644s), while on Windows, it is (36.064s/2.730s/7.194s), down from (47.637s/2.407s/6.863s). The culprit is most likely the overhead incurred from *still* having to shell out to mergetool-lib.sh and difftool--helper.sh. Still, it is an improvement. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks