diff-highlight: split code into modulejk/diff-highlight-module

The diff-so-fancy project is also written in perl, and most
of its users pipe diffs through both diff-highlight and
diff-so-fancy. It would be nice if this could be done in a
single script. So let's pull most of diff-highlight's code
into its own module which can be used by diff-so-fancy.

In addition, we'll abstract a few basic items like reading
from stdio so that a script using the module can do more
processing before or after diff-highlight handles the lines.
See the README update for more details.

One small downside is that the diff-highlight script must
now be built using the Makefile. There are ways around this,
but it quickly gets into perl arcana. Let's go with the
simple solution. As a bonus, our Makefile now respects the
PERL_PATH variable if it is set.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/README b/contrib/diff-highlight/README
index 836b97a730..d4c2343175 100644
--- a/contrib/diff-highlight/README
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/README
@@ -99,6 +99,36 @@ newHighlight = "black #aaffaa"
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+Using diff-highlight as a module
+--------------------------------
+
+If you want to pre- or post- process the highlighted lines as part of
+another perl script, you can use the DiffHighlight module. You can
+either "require" it or just cat the module together with your script (to
+avoid run-time dependencies).
+
+Your script may set up one or more of the following variables:
+
+  - $DiffHighlight::line_cb - this should point to a function which is
+    called whenever DiffHighlight has lines (which may contain
+    highlights) to output. The default function prints each line to
+    stdout. Note that the function may be called with multiple lines.
+
+  - $DiffHighlight::flush_cb - this should point to a function which
+    flushes the output (because DiffHighlight believes it has completed
+    processing a logical chunk of input). The default function flushes
+    stdout.
+
+The script may then feed lines, one at a time, to DiffHighlight::handle_line().
+When lines are done processing, they will be fed to $line_cb. Note that
+DiffHighlight may queue up many input lines (to analyze a whole hunk)
+before calling $line_cb. After providing all lines, call
+DiffHighlight::flush() to flush any unprocessed lines.
+
+If you just want to process stdin, DiffHighlight::highlight_stdin()
+is a convenience helper which will loop and flush for you.
+
+
 Bugs
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