mercurial/diffhelpers.c

backout: make help more explicit about what backout does

The help for backout explains:

   The backout command merges the reverse effect of the reverted
   changeset into the working directory.

Unfortunately, that does not make it obvious to a newcomer what the
backout command does.  Since it performs a 3-way merge, what is the
common ancestor?  Will the result be automatically committed?  What is
this reverted changeset --- is it the rev passed with -r on the
command line or its inverse?

So try to clarify the description, avoiding jargon and being
explicit about what happens from the user's perspective.

Thanks to Gilles Moris, Steve Borho, Kevin Bullock, and timeless for
help.

/*
 * diffhelpers.c - helper routines for mpatch
 *
 * Copyright 2007 Chris Mason <[e-mail]>
 *
 * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 * of the GNU General Public License v2, incorporated herein by reference.
 */

#include <Python.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "util.h"

static char diffhelpers_doc[] = "Efficient diff parsing";
static PyObject *diffhelpers_Error;


/* fixup the last lines of a and b when the patch has no newline at eof */
static void _fix_newline(PyObject *hunk, PyObject *a, PyObject *b)
{
	int hunksz = PyList_Size(hunk);
	PyObject *s = PyList_GET_ITEM(hunk, hunksz-1);
	char *l = PyBytes_AsString(s);
	int alen = PyList_Size(a);
	int blen = PyList_Size(b);
	char c = l[0];
	PyObject *hline;
	int sz = PyBytes_GET_SIZE(s);

	if (sz > 1 && l[sz-2] == '\r')
		/* tolerate CRLF in last line */
		sz -= 1;

	hline = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(l, sz-1);

	if (c == ' ' || c == '+') {
		PyObject *rline = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(l + 1, sz - 2);
		PyList_SetItem(b, blen-1, rline);
	}
	if (c == ' ' || c == '-') {
		Py_INCREF(hline);
		PyList_SetItem(a, alen-1, hline);
	}
	PyList_SetItem(hunk, hunksz-1, hline);
}

/* python callable form of _fix_newline */
static PyObject *
fix_newline(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
	PyObject *hunk, *a, *b;
	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOO", &hunk, &a, &b))
		return NULL;
	_fix_newline(hunk, a, b);
	return Py_BuildValue("l", 0);
}

/*
 * read lines from fp into the hunk.  The hunk is parsed into two arrays
 * a and b.  a gets the old state of the text, b gets the new state
 * The control char from the hunk is saved when inserting into a, but not b
 * (for performance while deleting files)
 */
static PyObject *
addlines(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{

	PyObject *fp, *hunk, *a, *b, *x;
	int i;
	int lena, lenb;
	int num;
	int todoa, todob;
	char *s, c;
	PyObject *l;
	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOiiOO", &fp, &hunk, &lena, &lenb, &a, &b))
		return NULL;

	while (1) {
		todoa = lena - PyList_Size(a);
		todob = lenb - PyList_Size(b);
		num = todoa > todob ? todoa : todob;
		if (num == 0)
		    break;
		for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
			x = PyFile_GetLine(fp, 0);
			s = PyBytes_AsString(x);
			c = *s;
			if (strcmp(s, "\\ No newline at end of file\n") == 0) {
				_fix_newline(hunk, a, b);
				continue;
			}
			if (c == '\n') {
				/* Some patches may be missing the control char
				 * on empty lines. Supply a leading space. */
				Py_DECREF(x);
				x = PyBytes_FromString(" \n");
			}
			PyList_Append(hunk, x);
			if (c == '+') {
				l = PyBytes_FromString(s + 1);
				PyList_Append(b, l);
				Py_DECREF(l);
			} else if (c == '-') {
				PyList_Append(a, x);
			} else {
				l = PyBytes_FromString(s + 1);
				PyList_Append(b, l);
				Py_DECREF(l);
				PyList_Append(a, x);
			}
			Py_DECREF(x);
		}
	}
	return Py_BuildValue("l", 0);
}

/*
 * compare the lines in a with the lines in b.  a is assumed to have
 * a control char at the start of each line, this char is ignored in the
 * compare
 */
static PyObject *
testhunk(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{

	PyObject *a, *b;
	long bstart;
	int alen, blen;
	int i;
	char *sa, *sb;

	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOl", &a, &b, &bstart))
		return NULL;
	alen = PyList_Size(a);
	blen = PyList_Size(b);
	if (alen > blen - bstart) {
		return Py_BuildValue("l", -1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i < alen; i++) {
		sa = PyBytes_AsString(PyList_GET_ITEM(a, i));
		sb = PyBytes_AsString(PyList_GET_ITEM(b, i + bstart));
		if (strcmp(sa + 1, sb) != 0)
			return Py_BuildValue("l", -1);
	}
	return Py_BuildValue("l", 0);
}

static PyMethodDef methods[] = {
	{"addlines", addlines, METH_VARARGS, "add lines to a hunk\n"},
	{"fix_newline", fix_newline, METH_VARARGS, "fixup newline counters\n"},
	{"testhunk", testhunk, METH_VARARGS, "test lines in a hunk\n"},
	{NULL, NULL}
};

#ifdef IS_PY3K
static struct PyModuleDef diffhelpers_module = {
	PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
	"diffhelpers",
	diffhelpers_doc,
	-1,
	methods
};

PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_diffhelpers(void)
{
	PyObject *m;

	m = PyModule_Create(&diffhelpers_module);
	if (m == NULL)
		return NULL;

	diffhelpers_Error = PyErr_NewException("diffhelpers.diffhelpersError",
											NULL, NULL);
	Py_INCREF(diffhelpers_Error);
	PyModule_AddObject(m, "diffhelpersError", diffhelpers_Error);

	return m;
}
#else
PyMODINIT_FUNC
initdiffhelpers(void)
{
	Py_InitModule3("diffhelpers", methods, diffhelpers_doc);
	diffhelpers_Error = PyErr_NewException("diffhelpers.diffhelpersError",
	                                        NULL, NULL);
}
#endif