Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:38:41 -0800 xdiff: add a bdiff hunk mode
Jun Wu <quark@fb.com> [Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:38:41 -0800] rev 36673
xdiff: add a bdiff hunk mode xdiff generated hunks for the differences (ex. questionmarks in the `@@ -?,? +?,? @@` part from `diff --git` output). However, bdiff generates matched hunks instead. This patch adds a `XDL_EMIT_BDIFFHUNK` flag used by the output function `xdl_call_hunk_func`. Once set, xdiff will generate bdiff-like hunks instead. That makes it easier to use xdiff as a drop-in replacement of bdiff. Note that since `bdiff('', '')` returns `[(0, 0, 0, 0)]`, the shortcut path `if (xscr)` is removed. I have checked functions called with `xscr` argument (`xdl_mark_ignorable`, `xdl_call_hunk_func`, `xdl_emit_diff`, `xdl_free_script`) work just fine with `xscr = NULL`. Test Plan: Will be tested in a later patch. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2575
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:39:55 -0800 xdiff: remove patience and histogram diff algorithms
Jun Wu <quark@fb.com> [Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:39:55 -0800] rev 36672
xdiff: remove patience and histogram diff algorithms Patience diff is the normal diff algorithm, plus some greediness that unconditionally matches common common unique lines. That means it is easy to construct cases to let it generate suboptimal result, like: ``` open('a', 'w').write('\n'.join(list('a' + 'x' * 300 + 'u' + 'x' * 700 + 'a\n'))) open('b', 'w').write('\n'.join(list('b' + 'x' * 700 + 'u' + 'x' * 300 + 'b\n'))) ``` Patience diff has been advertised as being able to generate better results for some C code changes. However, the more scientific way to do that is the indention heuristic [1]. Since patience diff could generate suboptimal result more easily and its "better" diff feature could be replaced by the new indention heuristic, let's just remove it and its variant histogram diff to simplify the code. [1]: https://github.com/git/git/commit/433860f3d0beb0c6f205290bd16cda413148f098 Test Plan: `gcc -fPIC *.c --shared -o xdiff.so` still builds. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2573
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