diff --check: detect leftover conflict markers

This teaches "diff --check" to detect and complain if the change
adds lines that look like leftover conflict markers.

We should be able to remove the old Perl script used in the sample
pre-commit hook and modernize the script with this facility.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index f31c721168..d515b06ea3 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1143,6 +1143,35 @@ struct checkdiff_t {
 	int trailing_blanks_start;
 };
 
+static int is_conflict_marker(const char *line, unsigned long len)
+{
+	char firstchar;
+	int cnt;
+
+	if (len < 8)
+		return 0;
+	firstchar = line[0];
+	switch (firstchar) {
+	case '=': case '>': case '<':
+		break;
+	default:
+		return 0;
+	}
+	for (cnt = 1; cnt < 7; cnt++)
+		if (line[cnt] != firstchar)
+			return 0;
+	/* line[0] thru line[6] are same as firstchar */
+	if (firstchar == '=') {
+		/* divider between ours and theirs? */
+		if (len != 8 || line[7] != '\n')
+			return 0;
+	} else if (len < 8 || !isspace(line[7])) {
+		/* not divider before ours nor after theirs */
+		return 0;
+	}
+	return 1;
+}
+
 static void checkdiff_consume(void *priv, char *line, unsigned long len)
 {
 	struct checkdiff_t *data = priv;
@@ -1159,6 +1188,12 @@ static void checkdiff_consume(void *priv, char *line, unsigned long len)
 			data->trailing_blanks_start = 0;
 		else if (!data->trailing_blanks_start)
 			data->trailing_blanks_start = data->lineno;
+		if (is_conflict_marker(line + 1, len - 1)) {
+			data->status |= 1;
+			fprintf(data->o->file,
+				"%s:%d: leftover conflict marker\n",
+				data->filename, data->lineno);
+		}
 		bad = ws_check(line + 1, len - 1, data->ws_rule);
 		if (!bad)
 			return;
diff --git a/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh b/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh
index 0d0fb87f57..d748d45dae 100755
--- a/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh
+++ b/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh
@@ -113,4 +113,18 @@ test_expect_success 'check should test not just the last line' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'check detects leftover conflict markers' '
+	git reset --hard &&
+	git checkout HEAD^ &&
+	echo binary >>b &&
+	git commit -m "side" b &&
+	test_must_fail git merge master &&
+	git add b && (
+		git --no-pager diff --cached --check >test.out
+		test $? = 2
+	) &&
+	test "$(grep "conflict marker" test.out | wc -l)" = 3 &&
+	git reset --hard
+'
+
 test_done