builtin/blame: dim uninteresting metadata lines

When using git-blame lots of lines contain redundant information, for
example in hunks that consist of multiple lines, the metadata (commit
name, author, date) are repeated. A reader may not be interested in those,
so offer an option to color the information that is repeated from the
previous line differently. Traditionally, we use CYAN for lines that
are less interesting than others (e.g. hunk header), so go with that.

The command line option '--color-lines' will trigger the coloring of
repeated lines, and the config option 'color.blame.colorLines' is
provided to select the color. Setting the config option doesn't imply
that repeated lines are colored. A later patch will introduce a config
to enable this mode by default.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 0e25b2c92b309330f27ce562e0f21f4e10179879..5d1d22e87383411d9911033b4967d9b5ace66942 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1218,6 +1218,11 @@ color.status.<slot>::
        status short-format), or
        `unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes).
 
+color.blame.repeatedLines::
+       Use the customized color for the part of git-blame output that
+       is repeated meta information per line (such as commit id,
+       author name, date and timezone). Defaults to cyan.
+
 color.ui::
        This variable determines the default value for variables such
        as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color

diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index 005f55aaa257fc34f81517650223a3c195c03178..0a10e9d2084fb68f797cae06d26411f23823416e 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "config.h"
+#include "color.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "commit.h"
 #include "diff.h"
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ static int xdl_opts;
 static int abbrev = -1;
 static int no_whole_file_rename;
 static int show_progress;
+static char repeated_meta_color[COLOR_MAXLEN];
 
 static struct date_mode blame_date_mode = { DATE_ISO8601 };
 static size_t blame_date_width;
@@ -316,10 +318,11 @@ static const char *format_time(timestamp_t time, const char *tz_str,
 #define OUTPUT_PORCELAIN       010
 #define OUTPUT_SHOW_NAME       020
 #define OUTPUT_SHOW_NUMBER     040
-#define OUTPUT_SHOW_SCORE      0100
-#define OUTPUT_NO_AUTHOR       0200
+#define OUTPUT_SHOW_SCORE      0100
+#define OUTPUT_NO_AUTHOR       0200
 #define OUTPUT_SHOW_EMAIL      0400
-#define OUTPUT_LINE_PORCELAIN 01000
+#define OUTPUT_LINE_PORCELAIN  01000
+#define OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE      02000
 
 static void emit_porcelain_details(struct blame_origin *suspect, int repeat)
 {
@@ -375,6 +378,7 @@ static void emit_other(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_entry *ent, int
        struct commit_info ci;
        char hex[GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1];
        int show_raw_time = !!(opt & OUTPUT_RAW_TIMESTAMP);
+       const char *color = NULL, *reset = NULL;
 
        get_commit_info(suspect->commit, &ci, 1);
        oid_to_hex_r(hex, &suspect->commit->object.oid);
@@ -384,6 +388,18 @@ static void emit_other(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_entry *ent, int
                char ch;
                int length = (opt & OUTPUT_LONG_OBJECT_NAME) ? GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ : abbrev;
 
+               if (opt & OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE) {
+                       if (cnt > 0) {
+                               color = repeated_meta_color;
+                               reset = GIT_COLOR_RESET;
+                       } else  {
+                               color = NULL;
+                               reset = NULL;
+                       }
+               }
+               if (color)
+                       fputs(color, stdout);
+
                if (suspect->commit->object.flags & UNINTERESTING) {
                        if (blank_boundary)
                                memset(hex, ' ', length);
@@ -433,6 +449,8 @@ static void emit_other(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_entry *ent, int
                        printf(" %*d) ",
                               max_digits, ent->lno + 1 + cnt);
                }
+               if (reset)
+                       fputs(reset, stdout);
                do {
                        ch = *cp++;
                        putchar(ch);
@@ -607,6 +625,12 @@ static int git_blame_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
                parse_date_format(value, &blame_date_mode);
                return 0;
        }
+       if (!strcmp(var, "color.blame.repeatedlines")) {
+               if (color_parse_mem(value, strlen(value), repeated_meta_color))
+                       warning(_("invalid color '%s' in color.blame.repeatedLines"),
+                               value);
+               return 0;
+       }
 
        if (git_diff_heuristic_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
                return -1;
@@ -681,6 +705,7 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                OPT_BIT('s', NULL, &output_option, N_("Suppress author name and timestamp (Default: off)"), OUTPUT_NO_AUTHOR),
                OPT_BIT('e', "show-email", &output_option, N_("Show author email instead of name (Default: off)"), OUTPUT_SHOW_EMAIL),
                OPT_BIT('w', NULL, &xdl_opts, N_("Ignore whitespace differences"), XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE),
+               OPT_BIT(0, "color-lines", &output_option, N_("color redundant metadata from previous line differently"), OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE),
 
                /*
                 * The following two options are parsed by parse_revision_opt()
@@ -940,8 +965,14 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
        blame_coalesce(&sb);
 
-       if (!(output_option & OUTPUT_PORCELAIN))
+       if (!(output_option & OUTPUT_PORCELAIN)) {
                find_alignment(&sb, &output_option);
+               if (!*repeated_meta_color &&
+                   (output_option & OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE))
+                       strcpy(repeated_meta_color, GIT_COLOR_CYAN);
+       }
+       if (output_option & OUTPUT_ANNOTATE_COMPAT)
+               output_option &= ~OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE;
 
        output(&sb, output_option);
        free((void *)sb.final_buf);

diff --git a/t/t8012-blame-colors.sh b/t/t8012-blame-colors.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..98a22a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t8012-blame-colors.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='colored git blame'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+PROG='git blame -c'
+. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/annotate-tests.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'colored blame colors contiguous lines' '
+       git -c color.blame.repeatedLines=yellow blame --color-lines --abbrev=12 hello.c >actual.raw &&
+       test_decode_color <actual.raw >actual &&
+       grep "<YELLOW>" <actual >darkened &&
+       grep "(F" darkened > F.expect &&
+       grep "(H" darkened > H.expect &&
+       test_line_count = 2 F.expect &&
+       test_line_count = 3 H.expect
+'
+
+test_done