Re: [jgit-dev] Creating the equivalent of "git diff"

[Zach Oakes <zsoakes@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm just trying to implement "git diff", i.e. a diff between my latest commit and my working tree (if I am using the terms correctly). The only semi-solution I've found is to continue using DirCacheIterator, but ignore any DiffEntry object that have a change type of ADD. This isn't ideal, but it at least avoids seeing entries from ignored directories.

Regarding org.eclipse.jgit.pgm, if that is shelling out to git, I would like to avoid that as I'd like my tool to not require git to be installed.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It depends what the arguments are. "git diff origin/master" diffs the working tree against origin/master; so in that case, one argument would be a FileTreeIterator and the other would be an AbstractTreeIterator over origin/master (which has no working tree, it's not checked out).

"git diff foo bar", on the other hand, diffs two non-working-tree arguments.

Tangential question: what's wrong with org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.Diff? Are there features that doesn't support that are better implemented upstream?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Zach Oakes <zsoakes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I should provide FileTreeIterators to both arguments of the DiffFormatter.scan method? It looks like the diff will always return nothing if I pass the exact same tree for both arguments. Maybe there is a way to set the first one to point of the HEAD of my repo...

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you have a working directory, use a WorkingTreeIterator. From the WTI javadoc you can see it recommends using FileTreeIterator if you have a local FS directory.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Zach Oakes <zsoakes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've tried replacing DirCacheIterator with a CanonicalTreeParser set to "HEAD^{tree}", and that actually does obey gitignore. Unfortunately, DiffFormatter's scan method returns every file in the repo, whether they've been modified or not. Perhaps I can try to filter them out.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Zach Oakes <zsoakes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not sure if I have to use DirCacheIterator, but I don't know of any other way to do it. I need to diff the last commit with whatever is in my working directory, as "git diff" does. Is there a workaround? I would imagine someone has done it before.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you look at the implementation of DiffFilter#getDiffTreeFilterFor, it looks like you need to pass it a WorkingTreeIterator to get it to use a NotIgnoredFilter.

I suppose if you must use a DirCacheIterator it's a missing feature to read .gitignore from the index.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Zach Oakes <zsoakes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to make an exact equivalent to the plain "git diff" command programmatically. The only remaining issue is that it doesn't seem to be respecting the repository's gitignore file. I am getting numerous diffs for files in a build directory, which do not appear when I run it on the command line. I would appreciate help if anyone can provide it.

DirCacheIterator dci = new DirCacheIterator(repo.readDirCache());

FileTreeIterator fti = new FileTreeIterator(repo);

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

DiffFormatter df = new DiffFormatter(out);

df.setRepository(repo);

List<DiffEntry> entries = df.scan(dci, fti);

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