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authorRussell Belfer <rb@github.com>2012-09-10 09:59:14 -0700
committerRussell Belfer <rb@github.com>2012-09-10 09:59:14 -0700
commitb36effa22e015871948daeea250b4996c663e11a (patch)
tree17841fe3ca402f27c255a60f6cf2f6698dc96d1c /src/diff.h
parent3a3deea80bb6555706f58006bdee8e878b0fd651 (diff)
downloadlibgit2-b36effa22e015871948daeea250b4996c663e11a.tar.gz
Replace git_diff_iterator_num_files with progress
The `git_diff_iterator_num_files` API was problematic, since we don't actually know the exact number of files to be iterated over until we load those files into memory. This replaces it with a new `git_diff_iterator_progress` API that goes from 0 to 1, and moves and renamed the old API for the internal places that can tolerate a max value instead of an exact value.
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diff --git a/src/diff.h b/src/diff.h
index def746323..ea38a678f 100644
--- a/src/diff.h
+++ b/src/diff.h
@@ -42,5 +42,27 @@ struct git_diff_list {
extern void git_diff__cleanup_modes(
uint32_t diffcaps, uint32_t *omode, uint32_t *nmode);
+/**
+ * Return the maximum possible number of files in the diff.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This number has to be treated as an upper bound on the number of
+ * files that have changed if the diff is with the working directory.
+ *
+ * Why?! For efficiency, we defer loading the file contents as long as
+ * possible, so if a file has been "touched" in the working directory and
+ * then reverted to the original content, it may get stored in the diff list
+ * as MODIFIED along with a flag that the status should be reconfirmed when
+ * it is actually loaded into memory. When that load happens, it could get
+ * flipped to UNMODIFIED. If unmodified files are being skipped, then the
+ * iterator will skip that file and this number may be too high.
+ *
+ * This behavior is true of `git_diff_foreach` as well, but the only
+ * implication there is that the `progress` value would not advance evenly.
+ *
+ * @param iterator The iterator object
+ * @return The maximum number of files to be iterated over
+ */
+int git_diff_iterator__max_files(git_diff_iterator *iterator);
+
#endif