Subject: [RFC/PATCH] gitweb: Create special from-file/to-file header for combined diff

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 01:16:16 +0200

Instead of using default, diff(1) like from-file/to-file header for
combined diff (for a merge commit), which looks like:

  --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
  +++ b/_git-gui/git-gui.sh_

(where _link_ denotes [hidden] hyperlink), create from-file(n)/to-file
header, using n/file for each or parents, e.g.:

  --- 1/_git-gui/git-gui.sh_
  --- 2/_git-gui.sh_
  +++ b/_git-gui/git-gui.sh_

Test it on one of merge commits involving rename, e.g.
  95f97567c1887d77f3a46b42d8622c76414d964d (rename at top)
  5bac4a671907604b5fb4e24ff682d5b0e8431931 (file from one branch)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
---
This is just an idea, not seriously meant to be applied... unless of
course you think that this is great. What do you think about it?

This patch depends on my earlier patch
  "gitweb: Split git_patchset_body into separate subroutines"

 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 795af92..f73f184 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1045,17 +1045,33 @@ sub format_diff_from_to_header {
 	#assert($line =~ m/^---/) if DEBUG;
 	# no extra formatting "^--- /dev/null"
 	if ($line =~ m!^--- "?a/!) {
-		if (!$diffinfo->{'nparents'} && # multiple 'from'
-		    $from->{'href'}) {
-			$line = '--- a/' .
-			        $cgi->a({-href=>$from->{'href'}, -class=>"path"},
-			                esc_path($from->{'file'}));
+		if (!$diffinfo->{'nparents'}) {
+			if ($from->{'href'}) {
+				$line = '--- a/' .
+				        $cgi->a({-href=>$from->{'href'}, -class=>"path"},
+				                esc_path($from->{'file'}));
+			} else {
+				$line = '--- a/' .
+				        esc_path($from->{'file'});
+			}
+			$result .= qq!<div class="diff from_file">$line</div>\n!;
 		} else {
-			$line = '--- a/' .
-			        esc_path($from->{'file'});
+			for (my $i = 0; $i < $diffinfo->{'nparents'}; $i++) {
+				if ($from->{'href'}[$i]) {
+					$result .= qq!<div class="diff from_file">--- ! .
+					           ($i+1) . "/" .
+					           $cgi->a({-href=>$from->{'href'}[$i], -class=>"path"},
+					                   esc_path($from->{'file'}[$i])) .
+					           qq!</div>\n!;
+				} else {
+					$result .= qq!<div class="diff from_file">--- /dev/null</div>\n!;
+				}
+			}
 		}
+	} else {
+		$result .= qq!<div class="diff from_file">$line</div>\n!;
 	}
-	$result .= qq!<div class="diff from_file">$line</div>\n!;
+
 
 	$line = $to_line;
 	#assert($line =~ m/^\+\+\+/) if DEBUG;
-- 
1.5.2