Subject: [PATCH v2] difftool: don't overwrite modified files

From: John Keeping <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:44:30 +0000

After running the user's diff tool, git-difftool will copy any files
that differ between the working tree and the temporary tree.  This is
useful when the user edits the file in their diff tool but is wrong if
they edit the working tree file while examining the diff.

Instead of copying unconditionally when the files differ, create and
index from the working tree files and only copy the temporary file back
if it was modified and the working tree file was not.  If both files
have been modified, print a warning and exit with an error.

Note that we cannot use an existing index in git-difftool since those
contain the modified files that need to be checked out but here we are
looking at those files which are copied from the working tree and not
checked out.  These are precisely the files which are not in the
existing indices.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <[email-masked]>
---
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:42:19AM +0000, John Keeping wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 08:41:59AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > This is gross. Can't we do much better here? Difftool already keeps a
> > GIT_INDEX of the files in the temporary tree ($tmpdir/rindex). Running
> > git-diff-files should be sufficient to tell which ones where edited via
> > the users's diff-tool. Then you can restrict calling hash-object to only
> > those worktree files where an "edit collision" needs to be checked for.
> 
> That's only the case for files that are not copied from the working
> tree, so the temporary index doesn't contain the files that are of
> interest here.
> 
> > You could also keep a parallel index that keeps the state of the same set
> > of files in the worktree. Then another git-diff-files call could replace
> > the other half of hash-object calls.
> 
> I like the idea of creating an index from the working tree files and
> using it here.  If we create a "starting state" index for these files,
> we should be able to run git-diff-files against both the working tree
> and the temporary tree at this point and compare the output.

Here's an attempt at taking this approach, built on
jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix.

 git-difftool.perl   | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 t/t7800-difftool.sh | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index c433e86..d10f7d2 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 use 5.008;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
+use Error qw(:try);
 use File::Basename qw(dirname);
 use File::Copy;
-use File::Compare;
 use File::Find;
 use File::stat;
 use File::Path qw(mkpath rmtree);
@@ -88,14 +88,45 @@ sub use_wt_file
 	my ($repo, $workdir, $file, $sha1, $symlinks) = @_;
 	my $null_sha1 = '0' x 40;
 
-	if ($sha1 eq $null_sha1) {
-		return 1;
-	} elsif (not $symlinks) {
+	if ($sha1 ne $null_sha1 and not $symlinks) {
 		return 0;
 	}
 
 	my $wt_sha1 = $repo->command_oneline('hash-object', "$workdir/$file");
-	return $sha1 eq $wt_sha1;
+	my $use = ($sha1 eq $null_sha1) || ($sha1 eq $wt_sha1);
+	return ($use, $wt_sha1);
+}
+
+sub changed_files
+{
+	my ($repo_path, $index, $worktree) = @_;
+	$ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE} = $index;
+	$ENV{GIT_WORK_TREE} = $worktree;
+	my $must_unset_git_dir = 0;
+	if (not defined($ENV{GIT_DIR})) {
+		$must_unset_git_dir = 1;
+		$ENV{GIT_DIR} = $repo_path;
+	}
+
+	my @refreshargs = qw/update-index --really-refresh -q --unmerged/;
+	my @gitargs = qw/diff-files --name-only -z/;
+	try {
+		Git::command_oneline(@refreshargs);
+	} catch Git::Error::Command with {};
+
+	my $line = Git::command_oneline(@gitargs);
+	my @files;
+	if (defined $line) {
+		@files = split('\0', $line);
+	} else {
+		@files = ();
+	}
+
+	delete($ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE});
+	delete($ENV{GIT_WORK_TREE});
+	delete($ENV{GIT_DIR}) if ($must_unset_git_dir);
+
+	return map { $_ => 1 } @files;
 }
 
 sub setup_dir_diff
@@ -121,6 +152,7 @@ sub setup_dir_diff
 	my $null_sha1 = '0' x 40;
 	my $lindex = '';
 	my $rindex = '';
+	my $wtindex = '';
 	my %submodule;
 	my %symlink;
 	my @working_tree = ();
@@ -174,8 +206,12 @@ EOF
 		}
 
 		if ($rmode ne $null_mode) {
-			if (use_wt_file($repo, $workdir, $dst_path, $rsha1, $symlinks)) {
-				push(@working_tree, $dst_path);
+			my ($use, $wt_sha1) = use_wt_file($repo, $workdir,
+							  $dst_path, $rsha1,
+							  $symlinks);
+			if ($use) {
+				push @working_tree, $dst_path;
+				$wtindex .= "$rmode $wt_sha1\t$dst_path\0";
 			} else {
 				$rindex .= "$rmode $rsha1\t$dst_path\0";
 			}
@@ -218,6 +254,12 @@ EOF
 	$rc = system('git', 'checkout-index', '--all', "--prefix=$rdir/");
 	exit_cleanup($tmpdir, $rc) if $rc != 0;
 
+	$ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE} = "$tmpdir/wtindex";
+	($inpipe, $ctx) =
+		$repo->command_input_pipe(qw(update-index --info-only -z --index-info));
+	print($inpipe $wtindex);
+	$repo->command_close_pipe($inpipe, $ctx);
+
 	# If $GIT_DIR was explicitly set just for the update/checkout
 	# commands, then it should be unset before continuing.
 	delete($ENV{GIT_DIR}) if ($must_unset_git_dir);
@@ -390,19 +432,22 @@ sub dir_diff
 	# should be copied back to the working tree.
 	# Do not copy back files when symlinks are used and the
 	# external tool did not replace the original link with a file.
+	my %wt_modified = changed_files($repo->repo_path(),
+		"$tmpdir/wtindex", "$workdir");
+	my %tmp_modified = changed_files($repo->repo_path(),
+		"$tmpdir/wtindex", "$b");
 	for my $file (@worktree) {
 		next if $symlinks && -l "$b/$file";
 		next if ! -f "$b/$file";
 
-		my $diff = compare("$b/$file", "$workdir/$file");
-		if ($diff == 0) {
-			next;
-		} elsif ($diff == -1) {
-			my $errmsg = "warning: Could not compare ";
-			$errmsg += "'$b/$file' with '$workdir/$file'\n";
+		if (exists $wt_modified{$file} and exists $tmp_modified{$file}) {
+			my $errmsg = "warning: Both files modified: ";
+			$errmsg .= "'$workdir/$file' and '$b/$file'.\n";
+			$errmsg .= "warning: Working tree file has been left.\n";
+			$errmsg .= "warning:\n";
 			warn $errmsg;
 			$error = 1;
-		} elsif ($diff == 1) {
+		} elsif ($tmp_modified{$file}) {
 			my $mode = stat("$b/$file")->mode;
 			copy("$b/$file", "$workdir/$file") or
 			exit_cleanup($tmpdir, 1);
diff --git a/t/t7800-difftool.sh b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
index db3d3d6..be2042d 100755
--- a/t/t7800-difftool.sh
+++ b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
@@ -407,4 +407,30 @@ test_expect_success PERL 'difftool --dir-diff from subdirectory' '
 	)
 '
 
+write_script modify-file <<\EOF
+echo "new content" >file
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success PERL 'difftool --no-symlinks does not overwrite working tree file ' '
+	echo "orig content" >file &&
+	git difftool --dir-diff --no-symlinks --extcmd "$(pwd)/modify-file" branch &&
+	echo "new content" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect file
+'
+
+write_script modify-both-files <<\EOF
+echo "wt content" >file &&
+echo "tmp content" >"$2/file" &&
+echo "$2" >tmpdir
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success PERL 'difftool --no-symlinks detects conflict ' '
+	echo "orig content" >file &&
+	test_must_fail git difftool --dir-diff --no-symlinks --extcmd "$(pwd)/modify-both-files" branch &&
+	echo "wt content" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect file &&
+	echo "tmp content" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect "$(cat tmpdir)/file"
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.8.2.411.g65a544e