Documentation: refactor common operations into variables

diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index 53ab0684f27f071b802abac26f62543ab27fae92..9447980330ce7892757f9b11fa45cfeb3e6fcb34 100644 (file)
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# This is included in commands that either have to be run from the toplevel
-# of the repository, or with GIT_DIR environment variable properly.
-# If the GIT_DIR does not look like the right correct git-repository,
-# it dies.
+# This shell scriplet is meant to be included by other shell scripts
+# to set up some variables pointing at the normal git directories and
+# a few helper shell functions.
 
 # Having this variable in your environment would break scripts because
 # you would cause "cd" to be taken to unexpected places.  If you
@@ -53,7 +50,7 @@ die () {
 die_with_status () {
        status=$1
        shift
-       echo >&2 "$*"
+       printf >&2 '%s\n' "$*"
        exit "$status"
 }
 
@@ -75,6 +72,8 @@ if test -n "$OPTIONS_SPEC"; then
        parseopt_extra=
        [ -n "$OPTIONS_KEEPDASHDASH" ] &&
                parseopt_extra="--keep-dashdash"
+       [ -n "$OPTIONS_STUCKLONG" ] &&
+               parseopt_extra="$parseopt_extra --stuck-long"
 
        eval "$(
                echo "$OPTIONS_SPEC" |
@@ -161,8 +160,9 @@ git_pager() {
        else
                GIT_PAGER=cat
        fi
-       : ${LESS=-FRSX}
-       export LESS
+       : ${LESS=-FRX}
+       : ${LV=-c}
+       export LESS LV
 
        eval "$GIT_PAGER" '"$@"'
 }
@@ -283,6 +283,18 @@ clear_local_git_env() {
        unset $(git rev-parse --local-env-vars)
 }
 
+# Generate a virtual base file for a two-file merge. Uses git apply to
+# remove lines from $1 that are not in $2, leaving only common lines.
+create_virtual_base() {
+       sz0=$(wc -c <"$1")
+       @@DIFF@@ -u -La/"$1" -Lb/"$1" "$1" "$2" | git apply --no-add
+       sz1=$(wc -c <"$1")
+
+       # If we do not have enough common material, it is not
+       # worth trying two-file merge using common subsections.
+       expr $sz0 \< $sz1 \* 2 >/dev/null || : >"$1"
+}
+
 
 # Platform specific tweaks to work around some commands
 case $(uname -s) in
@@ -335,3 +347,15 @@ then
        }
        : ${GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY="$GIT_DIR/objects"}
 fi
+
+peel_committish () {
+       case "$1" in
+       :/*)
+               peeltmp=$(git rev-parse --verify "$1") &&
+               git rev-parse --verify "${peeltmp}^0"
+               ;;
+       *)
+               git rev-parse --verify "${1}^0"
+               ;;
+       esac
+}