[PATCH 2/3] Teach git diff-tree --stdin to diff trees

["Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>]

In addition to accepting lines with one or more commits, it now
accepts lines with precisely two trees.

When diffing trees, the -m, -s, -v, --pretty, --abbrev-commit,
--encoding, --no-commit-id, -c, --cc, and --always options are
ignored, since they do not apply to trees. This is the same behavior
you get when specifying two trees on the command line instead of with
--stdin.

Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>

---

 Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt |   14 +++++++++-----
 builtin-diff-tree.c             |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index 1fdf20d..0b1ade8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -49,13 +49,17 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 --stdin::
 	When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
 	<tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it
-	reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit>
-	separated with a single space from its standard input.
+	reads lines containing either two <tree>, one <commit>, or a
+	list of <commit> from its standard input.  (Use a single space
+	as separator.)
 +
-When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares
-the commit with its parents.  The following flags further affects its
-behavior.  The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are
+When two trees are given, it compares the first tree with the second.
+When a single commit is given, it compares the commit with its
+parents.  The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are
 parents of the first commit.
++
+The following flags further affects the behavior when comparing
+commits (but not trees).
 
 -m::
 	By default, 'git-diff-tree --stdin' does not show
diff --git a/builtin-diff-tree.c b/builtin-diff-tree.c
index ebbd631..0bdb1cf 100644
--- a/builtin-diff-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-diff-tree.c
@@ -42,21 +42,48 @@ static int stdin_diff_commit(struct commit *commit, char *line, int len)
 	return log_tree_commit(&log_tree_opt, commit);
 }
 
+/* Diff two trees. */
+static int stdin_diff_trees(struct tree *tree1, char *line, int len)
+{
+	unsigned char sha1[20];
+	struct tree *tree2;
+	if (len != 82 || !isspace(line[40]) || get_sha1_hex(line + 41, sha1)) {
+		error("Need precisely two trees, separated by one space");
+		return -1;
+	}
+	tree2 = lookup_tree(sha1);
+	if (!tree2 || parse_tree(tree2))
+		return -1;
+	printf("%s %s\n", sha1_to_hex(tree1->object.sha1),
+			  sha1_to_hex(tree2->object.sha1));
+	diff_tree_sha1(tree1->object.sha1, tree2->object.sha1,
+		       "", &log_tree_opt.diffopt);
+	log_tree_diff_flush(&log_tree_opt);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int diff_tree_stdin(char *line)
 {
 	int len = strlen(line);
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
-	struct commit *commit;
+	struct object *obj;
 
 	if (!len || line[len-1] != '\n')
 		return -1;
 	line[len-1] = 0;
 	if (get_sha1_hex(line, sha1))
 		return -1;
-	commit = lookup_commit(sha1);
-	if (!commit || parse_commit(commit))
+	obj = lookup_object(sha1);
+	obj = obj ? obj : parse_object(sha1);
+	if (!obj)
 		return -1;
-	return stdin_diff_commit(commit, line, len);
+	if (obj->type == OBJ_COMMIT)
+		return stdin_diff_commit((struct commit *)obj, line, len);
+	if (obj->type == OBJ_TREE)
+		return stdin_diff_trees((struct tree *)obj, line, len);
+	error("Object %s is a %s, not a commit or tree",
+	      sha1_to_hex(sha1), typename(obj->type));
+	return -1;
 }
 
 static const char diff_tree_usage[] =