In side-by-side diff, add support for marking individual characters.

Refuses to do so if the left hand side of the diff has different amount of
differing lines to the right hand side to avoid confusion.

Note that I use the naive dynamic programming approach for calculating the
longest common subsequence. We could probably be more efficient by using a
better algorithm. The LCS calculating function is O(n*m) and uses up n*m
amount of memory too (so if we we compare two strings of length 100, I use
an array of 10000 for calculating the LCS). Might want to not calculate LCS
if the length of the line is too large.

Signed-off-by: Ragnar Ouchterlony <ragnar@lysator.liu.se>

1 files changed, 120 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/ui-ssdiff.c b/ui-ssdiff.c
index 5673642..408e620 100644
--- a/ui-ssdiff.c
+++ b/ui-ssdiff.c
@@ -17,2 +17,48 @@ static struct deferred_lines *deferred_new, *deferred_new_last;
 
+static char *longest_common_subsequence(char *A, char *B)
+{
+        int i, j, ri;
+        int m = strlen(A);
+        int n = strlen(B);
+        int L[m + 1][n + 1];
+        int tmp1, tmp2;
+        int lcs_length;
+        char *result;
+
+        for (i = m; i >= 0; i--) {
+                for (j = n; j >= 0; j--) {
+                        if (A[i] == '\0' || B[j] == '\0') {
+                                L[i][j] = 0;
+                        } else if (A[i] == B[j]) {
+                                L[i][j] = 1 + L[i + 1][j + 1];
+                        } else {
+                                tmp1 = L[i + 1][j];
+                                tmp2 = L[i][j + 1];
+                                L[i][j] = (tmp1 > tmp2 ? tmp1 : tmp2);
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+
+        lcs_length = L[0][0];
+        result = xmalloc(lcs_length + 2);
+        memset(result, 0, sizeof(*result) * (lcs_length + 2));
+
+        ri = 0;
+        i = 0;
+        j = 0;
+        while (i < m && j < n) {
+                if (A[i] == B[j]) {
+                        result[ri] = A[i];
+                        ri += 1;
+                        i += 1;
+                        j += 1;
+                } else if (L[i + 1][j] >= L[i][j + 1]) {
+                        i += 1;
+                } else {
+                        j += 1;
+                }
+        }
+        return result;
+}
+
 static int line_from_hunk(char *line, char type)
@@ -75,2 +121,13 @@ static char *replace_tabs(char *line)
 
+static int calc_deferred_lines(struct deferred_lines *start)
+{
+        struct deferred_lines *item = start;
+        int result = 0;
+        while (item) {
+                result += 1;
+                item = item->next;
+        }
+        return result;
+}
+
 static void deferred_old_add(char *line, int line_no)
@@ -103,5 +160,41 @@ static void deferred_new_add(char *line, int line_no)
 
-static void print_ssdiff_line(char *class, int old_line_no, char *old_line,
-                              int new_line_no, char *new_line)
+static void print_part_with_lcs(char *class, char *line, char *lcs)
+{
+        int line_len = strlen(line);
+        int i, j;
+        char c[2] = " ";
+        int same = 1;
+
+        j = 0;
+        for (i = 0; i < line_len; i++) {
+                c[0] = line[i];
+                if (same) {
+                        if (line[i] == lcs[j])
+                                j += 1;
+                        else {
+                                same = 0;
+                                htmlf("<span class='%s'>", class);
+                        }
+                } else if (line[i] == lcs[j]) {
+                        same = 1;
+                        htmlf("</span>");
+                        j += 1;
+                }
+                html_txt(c);
+        }
+}
+
+static void print_ssdiff_line(char *class,
+                              int old_line_no,
+                              char *old_line,
+                              int new_line_no,
+                              char *new_line, int individual_chars)
 {
+        char *lcs = NULL;
+        if (old_line)
+                old_line = replace_tabs(old_line + 1);
+        if (new_line)
+                new_line = replace_tabs(new_line + 1);
+        if (individual_chars && old_line && new_line)
+                lcs = longest_common_subsequence(old_line, new_line);
         html("<tr>");
@@ -114,7 +207,7 @@ static void print_ssdiff_line(char *class, int old_line_no, char *old_line,
                 htmlf("<td class='lineno'></td><td class='%s_dark'>", class);
-
         if (old_line) {
-                old_line = replace_tabs(old_line + 1);
-                html_txt(old_line);
-                free(old_line);
+                if (lcs)
+                        print_part_with_lcs("del", old_line, lcs);
+                else
+                        html_txt(old_line);
         }
@@ -122,3 +215,2 @@ static void print_ssdiff_line(char *class, int old_line_no, char *old_line,
         html("</td>");
-
         if (new_line_no > 0)
@@ -130,7 +222,7 @@ static void print_ssdiff_line(char *class, int old_line_no, char *old_line,
                 htmlf("<td class='lineno'></td><td class='%s_dark'>", class);
-
         if (new_line) {
-                new_line = replace_tabs(new_line + 1);
-                html_txt(new_line);
-                free(new_line);
+                if (lcs)
+                        print_part_with_lcs("add", new_line, lcs);
+                else
+                        html_txt(new_line);
         }
@@ -138,2 +230,8 @@ static void print_ssdiff_line(char *class, int old_line_no, char *old_line,
         html("</td></tr>");
+        if (lcs)
+                free(lcs);
+        if (new_line)
+                free(new_line);
+        if (old_line)
+                free(old_line);
 }
@@ -143,3 +241,2 @@ static void print_deferred_old_lines()
         struct deferred_lines *iter_old, *tmp;
-
         iter_old = deferred_old;
@@ -147,3 +244,3 @@ static void print_deferred_old_lines()
                 print_ssdiff_line("del", iter_old->line_no,
-                                  iter_old->line, -1, NULL);
+                                  iter_old->line, -1, NULL, 0);
                 tmp = iter_old->next;
@@ -157,7 +254,6 @@ static void print_deferred_new_lines()
         struct deferred_lines *iter_new, *tmp;
-
         iter_new = deferred_new;
         while (iter_new) {
-                print_ssdiff_line("add", -1, NULL, iter_new->line_no,
-                                  iter_new->line);
+                print_ssdiff_line("add", -1, NULL,
+                                  iter_new->line_no, iter_new->line, 0);
                 tmp = iter_new->next;
@@ -171,2 +267,5 @@ static void print_deferred_changed_lines()
         struct deferred_lines *iter_old, *iter_new, *tmp;
+        int n_old_lines = calc_deferred_lines(deferred_old);
+        int n_new_lines = calc_deferred_lines(deferred_new);
+        int individual_chars = (n_old_lines == n_new_lines ? 1 : 0);
 
@@ -178,10 +277,10 @@ static void print_deferred_changed_lines()
                                           iter_old->line,
-                                          iter_new->line_no, iter_new->line);
+                                          iter_new->line_no, iter_new->line,
+                                          individual_chars);
                 else if (iter_old)
                         print_ssdiff_line("changed", iter_old->line_no,
-                                          iter_old->line, -1, NULL);
+                                          iter_old->line, -1, NULL, 0);
                 else if (iter_new)
                         print_ssdiff_line("changed", -1, NULL,
-                                          iter_new->line_no, iter_new->line);
-
+                                          iter_new->line_no, iter_new->line, 0);
                 if (iter_old) {
@@ -204,3 +303,2 @@ void cgit_ssdiff_print_deferred_lines()
                 return;
-
         if (deferred_old && !deferred_new)
@@ -211,3 +309,2 @@ void cgit_ssdiff_print_deferred_lines()
                 print_deferred_changed_lines();
-
         deferred_old = deferred_old_last = NULL;
@@ -222,5 +319,3 @@ void cgit_ssdiff_line_cb(char *line, int len)
         char c = line[len - 1];
-
         line[len - 1] = '\0';
-
         if (line[0] == '@') {
@@ -234,3 +329,3 @@ void cgit_ssdiff_line_cb(char *line, int len)
                 print_ssdiff_line("ctx", current_old_line, line,
-                                  current_new_line, line);
+                                  current_new_line, line, 0);
                 current_old_line += 1;