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@cruessler cruessler commented Jul 31, 2025

This is a draft PR that is still somewhat rough around the edges. It replaces the libgit2 logic in get_diff with gitoxide. A few things don’t work yet, but the code is already capable of generating correct diffs in some cases. I hope to get this PR into a reviewable/mergable state by the end of next week, but I won’t make any promises. :-)

This will hopefully also address #2665.

Update 2025-08-08

I’m now down to just 4 tests not passing! Also, as I’d hoped, this PR addesses #2665, completely eliminating any CPU load because binary files are ignored by the diff algorithm.

There’s a few remaining issues/open questions:

  • gitoxide does not provide structured diffs yet which is why this PR, as a workaround, resorts to string matching on a given hunk’s lines. This will hopefully be addressed upstream through Add HunkHeader and DiffLineType to ConsumeHunk::consume_hunk GitoxideLabs/gitoxide#2102. Once gitoxide has dedicated data structures, I should be able to simplify this PR considerably.
  • gitoxide does not provide extended headers such as @@ -315,6 +315,12 @@ impl ConsumeHunk for FileDiff { the same way git2 does (unless I’m missing something). The impl ConsumeHunk for FileDiff { is not part of what we get from gitoxide. As far as I can see, this only affects the UI.
  • gitoxide produces different diffs than git2 in certain cases which is known as the “slider problem”. I hope to be able to address this upstream as well, but it will take time and it will block this PR if we’re aiming for git2 compatibility (and I think there’s strong reasons to do that).

@cruessler cruessler force-pushed the use-gitoxide-for-get-diff branch from 9d457fd to 62744a0 Compare August 8, 2025 12:35
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