mdiff: compare content of binary files directly

A plain Python string comparison stops when the first mismatch is
found, whereas the call to md5 would need to compute the hash over the
entire string and only then do the comparison.

mercurial/mdiff.py

@@ -1,260 +1,257
 # mdiff.py - diff and patch routines for mercurial
 #
 # Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
 #
 # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 # of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
 
 from i18n import _
 import bdiff, mpatch, re, struct, util
 
 def splitnewlines(text):
     '''like str.splitlines, but only split on newlines.'''
     lines = [l + '\n' for l in text.split('\n')]
     if lines:
         if lines[-1] == '\n':
             lines.pop()
         else:
             lines[-1] = lines[-1][:-1]
     return lines
 
 class diffopts(object):
     '''context is the number of context lines
     text treats all files as text
     showfunc enables diff -p output
     git enables the git extended patch format
     nodates removes dates from diff headers
     ignorews ignores all whitespace changes in the diff
     ignorewsamount ignores changes in the amount of whitespace
     ignoreblanklines ignores changes whose lines are all blank'''
 
     defaults = {
         'context': 3,
         'text': False,
         'showfunc': False,
         'git': False,
         'nodates': False,
         'ignorews': False,
         'ignorewsamount': False,
         'ignoreblanklines': False,
         }
 
     __slots__ = defaults.keys()
 
     def __init__(self, **opts):
         for k in self.__slots__:
             v = opts.get(k)
             if v is None:
                 v = self.defaults[k]
             setattr(self, k, v)
 
         try:
             self.context = int(self.context)
         except ValueError:
             raise util.Abort(_('diff context lines count must be '
                                'an integer, not %r') % self.context)
 
 defaultopts = diffopts()
 
 def wsclean(opts, text):
     if opts.ignorews:
         text = re.sub('[ \t]+', '', text)
     elif opts.ignorewsamount:
         text = re.sub('[ \t]+', ' ', text)
         text = re.sub('[ \t]+\n', '\n', text)
     if opts.ignoreblanklines:
         text = re.sub('\n+', '', text)
     return text
 
 def unidiff(a, ad, b, bd, fn1, fn2, r=None, opts=defaultopts):
     def datetag(date, addtab=True):
         if not opts.git and not opts.nodates:
             return '\t%s\n' % date
         if addtab and ' ' in fn1:
             return '\t\n'
         return '\n'
 
     if not a and not b: return ""
     epoch = util.datestr((0, 0))
 
     if not opts.text and (util.binary(a) or util.binary(b)):
-        def h(v):
-            # md5 is used instead of sha1 because md5 is supposedly faster
-            return util.md5(v).digest()
-        if a and b and len(a) == len(b) and h(a) == h(b):
+        if a and b and len(a) == len(b) and a == b:
             return ""
         l = ['Binary file %s has changed\n' % fn1]
     elif not a:
         b = splitnewlines(b)
         if a is None:
             l1 = '--- /dev/null%s' % datetag(epoch, False)
         else:
             l1 = "--- %s%s" % ("a/" + fn1, datetag(ad))
         l2 = "+++ %s%s" % ("b/" + fn2, datetag(bd))
         l3 = "@@ -0,0 +1,%d @@\n" % len(b)
         l = [l1, l2, l3] + ["+" + e for e in b]
     elif not b:
         a = splitnewlines(a)
         l1 = "--- %s%s" % ("a/" + fn1, datetag(ad))
         if b is None:
             l2 = '+++ /dev/null%s' % datetag(epoch, False)
         else:
             l2 = "+++ %s%s" % ("b/" + fn2, datetag(bd))
         l3 = "@@ -1,%d +0,0 @@\n" % len(a)
         l = [l1, l2, l3] + ["-" + e for e in a]
     else:
         al = splitnewlines(a)
         bl = splitnewlines(b)
         l = list(bunidiff(a, b, al, bl, "a/" + fn1, "b/" + fn2, opts=opts))
         if not l: return ""
         # difflib uses a space, rather than a tab
         l[0] = "%s%s" % (l[0][:-2], datetag(ad))
         l[1] = "%s%s" % (l[1][:-2], datetag(bd))
 
     for ln in xrange(len(l)):
         if l[ln][-1] != '\n':
             l[ln] += "\n\ No newline at end of file\n"
 
     if r:
         l.insert(0, "diff %s %s\n" %
                     (' '.join(["-r %s" % rev for rev in r]), fn1))
 
     return "".join(l)
 
 # somewhat self contained replacement for difflib.unified_diff
 # t1 and t2 are the text to be diffed
 # l1 and l2 are the text broken up into lines
 # header1 and header2 are the filenames for the diff output
 def bunidiff(t1, t2, l1, l2, header1, header2, opts=defaultopts):
     def contextend(l, len):
         ret = l + opts.context
         if ret > len:
             ret = len
         return ret
 
     def contextstart(l):
         ret = l - opts.context
         if ret < 0:
             return 0
         return ret
 
     def yieldhunk(hunk, header):
         if header:
             for x in header:
                 yield x
         (astart, a2, bstart, b2, delta) = hunk
         aend = contextend(a2, len(l1))
         alen = aend - astart
         blen = b2 - bstart + aend - a2
 
         func = ""
         if opts.showfunc:
             # walk backwards from the start of the context
             # to find a line starting with an alphanumeric char.
             for x in xrange(astart, -1, -1):
                 t = l1[x].rstrip()
                 if funcre.match(t):
                     func = ' ' + t[:40]
                     break
 
         yield "@@ -%d,%d +%d,%d @@%s\n" % (astart + 1, alen,
                                            bstart + 1, blen, func)
         for x in delta:
             yield x
         for x in xrange(a2, aend):
             yield ' ' + l1[x]
 
     header = [ "--- %s\t\n" % header1, "+++ %s\t\n" % header2 ]
 
     if opts.showfunc:
         funcre = re.compile('\w')
 
     # bdiff.blocks gives us the matching sequences in the files.  The loop
     # below finds the spaces between those matching sequences and translates
     # them into diff output.
     #
     diff = bdiff.blocks(t1, t2)
     hunk = None
     for i in xrange(len(diff)):
         # The first match is special.
         # we've either found a match starting at line 0 or a match later
         # in the file.  If it starts later, old and new below will both be
         # empty and we'll continue to the next match.
         if i > 0:
             s = diff[i-1]
         else:
             s = [0, 0, 0, 0]
         delta = []
         s1 = diff[i]
         a1 = s[1]
         a2 = s1[0]
         b1 = s[3]
         b2 = s1[2]
 
         old = l1[a1:a2]
         new = l2[b1:b2]
 
         # bdiff sometimes gives huge matches past eof, this check eats them,
         # and deals with the special first match case described above
         if not old and not new:
             continue
 
         if opts.ignorews or opts.ignorewsamount or opts.ignoreblanklines:
             if wsclean(opts, "".join(old)) == wsclean(opts, "".join(new)):
                 continue
 
         astart = contextstart(a1)
         bstart = contextstart(b1)
         prev = None
         if hunk:
             # join with the previous hunk if it falls inside the context
             if astart < hunk[1] + opts.context + 1:
                 prev = hunk
                 astart = hunk[1]
                 bstart = hunk[3]
             else:
                 for x in yieldhunk(hunk, header):
                     yield x
                 # we only want to yield the header if the files differ, and
                 # we only want to yield it once.
                 header = None
         if prev:
             # we've joined the previous hunk, record the new ending points.
             hunk[1] = a2
             hunk[3] = b2
             delta = hunk[4]
         else:
             # create a new hunk
             hunk = [ astart, a2, bstart, b2, delta ]
 
         delta[len(delta):] = [ ' ' + x for x in l1[astart:a1] ]
         delta[len(delta):] = [ '-' + x for x in old ]
         delta[len(delta):] = [ '+' + x for x in new ]
 
     if hunk:
         for x in yieldhunk(hunk, header):
             yield x
 
 def patchtext(bin):
     pos = 0
     t = []
     while pos < len(bin):
         p1, p2, l = struct.unpack(">lll", bin[pos:pos + 12])
         pos += 12
         t.append(bin[pos:pos + l])
         pos += l
     return "".join(t)
 
 def patch(a, bin):
     return mpatch.patches(a, [bin])
 
 # similar to difflib.SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks
 def get_matching_blocks(a, b):
     return [(d[0], d[2], d[1] - d[0]) for d in bdiff.blocks(a, b)]
 
 def trivialdiffheader(length):
     return struct.pack(">lll", 0, 0, length)
 
 patches = mpatch.patches
 patchedsize = mpatch.patchedsize
 textdiff = bdiff.bdiff