From 46651ce6fe013220ed397add242004d764fc0153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 14:15:05 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 14.5. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- src/tools/git-external-diff | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/tools/git-external-diff (limited to 'src/tools/git-external-diff') diff --git a/src/tools/git-external-diff b/src/tools/git-external-diff new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39ddd01 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/tools/git-external-diff @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +#!/bin/bash + +# This script is used to produce git context diffs + +# Supplied parameters: +# $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 +# path old-file old-hash old-mode new-file new-hash new-mode +# 'path' is the git-tree-relative path of the file being diff'ed + +=comment + +This info is copied from the old wiki page on Working with git: + +Context diffs with Git + +Copy git-external-diff into libexec/git-core/ of your git installation +and configure git to use that wrapper with: + + git config [--global] diff.external git-external-diff + +--global makes the configuration global for your user - otherwise it is +just configured for the current repository. + +For every command which displays diffs in some way you can use the +parameter "--[no-]-ext-diff" to enable respectively disable using the +external diff command. + +For the git diff command --ext-diff is enabled by default - for any +other command like git log -p or git format-patch it is not! + +This method should work on all platforms supported by git. + +If you do not want to configure the external wrapper permanently or you +want to overwrite it you can also invoke git like: + + export GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=git-external-diff + git diff --[no-]ext-diff + +Alternatively, configure a git alias in ~/.gitconfig or .git/config: + + [alias] + cdiff = !GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=git-context-diff git diff +=cut + +old_hash="$3" +new_hash=$(git hash-object "$5") + +# no change? +[ "$old_hash" = "$new_hash" ] && exit 0 + +[ "$DIFF_OPTS" = "" ] && DIFF_OPTS='-pcd' + +echo "diff --git a/$1 b/$1" +echo "new file mode $7" +echo "index ${old_hash:0:7}..${new_hash:0:7}" + +diff --label a/"$1" --label b/"$1" $DIFF_OPTS "$2" "$5" + +exit 0 -- cgit v1.2.3