diffcore-rename: make diff-tree -l0 mean -l<large>

In the documentation of diff-tree, it is stated that the -l option
"prevents rename/copy detection from running if the number of
rename/copy targets exceeds the specified number". The documentation
does not mention any special handling for the number 0, but the
implementation before commit 9f7e4bfa3b ("diff: remove silent clamp of
renameLimit", 2017-11-13) treated 0 as a special value indicating that
the rename limit is to be a very large number instead.

The commit 9f7e4bfa3b changed that behavior, treating 0 as 0. Revert
this behavior to what it was previously. This allows existing scripts
and tools that use "-l0" to continue working. The alternative (to have
"-l0" suppress rename detection) is probably much less useful, since
users can just refrain from specifying -M and/or -C to have the same
effect.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/diffcore-rename.c b/diffcore-rename.c
index 9ca0eae..245e999 100644 (file)
--- a/diffcore-rename.c
+++ b/diffcore-rename.c
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ static int too_many_rename_candidates(int num_create,
         *
         *    num_create * num_src > rename_limit * rename_limit
         */
+       if (rename_limit <= 0)
+               rename_limit = 32767;
        if ((num_create <= rename_limit || num_src <= rename_limit) &&
            ((uint64_t)num_create * (uint64_t)num_src
             <= (uint64_t)rename_limit * (uint64_t)rename_limit))

diff --git a/t/t4001-diff-rename.sh b/t/t4001-diff-rename.sh
index 0d1fa45..eadf4f6 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t4001-diff-rename.sh
+++ b/t/t4001-diff-rename.sh
@@ -230,4 +230,19 @@ test_expect_success 'rename pretty print common prefix and suffix overlap' '
        test_i18ngrep " d/f/{ => f}/e " output
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'diff-tree -l0 defaults to a big rename limit, not zero' '
+       test_write_lines line1 line2 line3 >myfile &&
+       git add myfile &&
+       git commit -m x &&
+
+       test_write_lines line1 line2 line4 >myotherfile &&
+       git rm myfile &&
+       git add myotherfile &&
+       git commit -m x &&
+
+       git diff-tree -M -l0 HEAD HEAD^ >actual &&
+       # Verify that a rename from myotherfile to myfile was detected
+       grep "myotherfile.*myfile" actual
+'
+
 test_done