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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tian Yuchen <a3205153416@gmail.com>, Scott Baker <scott@perturb.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 8/8] diff-highlight: fetch all config with one process
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:02:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323060218.GH10482@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260323060139.GA10215@coredump.intra.peff.net>

When diff-highlight was written, there was no way to fetch multiple
config keys _and_ have them interpreted as colors. So we were stuck
with either invoking git-config once for each config key, or fetching
them all and converting human-readable color names into ANSI codes
ourselves.

I chose the former, but it means that diff-highlight kicks off 6
git-config processes (even if you haven't configured anything, it has to
check each one).

But since Git 2.18.0, we can do:

   git config --type=color --get-regexp=^color\.diff-highlight\.

to get all of them in one shot.

Note that any callers which pass in colors directly to the module via
@OLD_HIGHLIGHT and @NEW_HIGHLIGHT (like diff-so-fancy plans to do) are
unaffected; those colors suppress any config lookup we'd do ourselves.

You can see the effect like:

  # diff-highlight suppresses git-config's stderr, so dump
  # trace through descriptor 3
  git show d1f33c753d | GIT_TRACE=3 diff-highlight 3>&2 >/dev/null

which drops from 6 lines down to 1.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm b/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm
index 96369eadf9..abe457882e 100644
--- a/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm
@@ -131,9 +131,21 @@ sub highlight_stdin {
 # of it being used in other settings. Let's handle our own
 # fallback, which means we will work even if git can't be run.
 sub color_config {
+	our $cached_config;
 	my ($key, $default) = @_;
-	my $s = `git config --get-color $key 2>$NULL`;
-	return length($s) ? $s : $default;
+
+	if (!defined $cached_config) {
+		$cached_config = {};
+		my $data = `git config --type=color --get-regexp '^color\.diff-highlight\.' 2>$NULL`;
+		for my $line (split /\n/, $data) {
+			my ($key, $color) = split ' ', $line, 2;
+			$key =~ s/^color\.diff-highlight\.// or next;
+			$cached_config->{$key} = $color;
+		}
+	}
+
+	my $s = $cached_config->{$key};
+	return defined($s) ? $s : $default;
 }
 
 sub show_hunk {
@@ -172,16 +184,16 @@ sub load_color_config {
 	# always be set if you want highlighting to do anything.
 	if (!defined $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[1]) {
 		@OLD_HIGHLIGHT = (
-			color_config('color.diff-highlight.oldnormal'),
-			color_config('color.diff-highlight.oldhighlight', "\x1b[7m"),
-			color_config('color.diff-highlight.oldreset', "\x1b[27m")
+			color_config('oldnormal'),
+			color_config('oldhighlight', "\x1b[7m"),
+			color_config('oldreset', "\x1b[27m")
 		);
 	}
 	if (!defined $NEW_HIGHLIGHT[1]) {
 		@NEW_HIGHLIGHT = (
-			color_config('color.diff-highlight.newnormal', $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[0]),
-			color_config('color.diff-highlight.newhighlight', $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[1]),
-			color_config('color.diff-highlight.newreset', $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[2])
+			color_config('newnormal', $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[0]),
+			color_config('newhighlight', $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[1]),
+			color_config('newreset', $OLD_HIGHLIGHT[2])
 		);
 	};
 }
-- 
2.53.0.1051.ga14e96f895

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-23  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-20  0:41 [PATCH 0/8] some diff-highlight tweaks Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] diff-highlight: mention build instructions Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] diff-highlight: drop perl version dependency back to 5.8 Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:43 ` [PATCH 3/8] diff-highlight: check diff-highlight exit status in tests Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:43 ` [PATCH 4/8] t: add matching negative attributes to test_decode_color Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:44 ` [PATCH 5/8] diff-highlight: use test_decode_color in tests Jeff King
2026-03-22 17:24   ` Tian Yuchen
2026-03-22 20:47     ` Jeff King
2026-03-23  5:48       ` Tian Yuchen
2026-03-23  5:53         ` Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] diff-highlight: test color config Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:47 ` [PATCH 7/8] diff-highlight: allow module callers to pass in " Jeff King
2026-03-20  0:48 ` [PATCH 8/8] diff-highlight: fetch all config with one process Jeff King
2026-03-22 17:18   ` Tian Yuchen
2026-03-22 20:45     ` Jeff King
2026-03-23  5:39       ` Tian Yuchen
2026-03-23  5:57         ` Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] some diff-highlight tweaks Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:01   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] diff-highlight: mention build instructions Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] diff-highlight: drop perl version dependency back to 5.8 Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] diff-highlight: check diff-highlight exit status in tests Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] t: add matching negative attributes to test_decode_color Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] diff-highlight: use test_decode_color in tests Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] diff-highlight: test color config Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] diff-highlight: allow module callers to pass in " Jeff King
2026-03-23  6:02   ` Jeff King [this message]
2026-03-23 16:38   ` [PATCH v2 0/8] some diff-highlight tweaks Junio C Hamano
2026-03-24  6:50     ` Patrick Steinhardt

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