Multiline comments are not highlighted correctly

[drsybren]

Description

Multi-line comments are not highlighted correctly in diff views.

Actual behaviour

Example: commit aa72e3abf9644de3c0478692d7bb357d1c7297e2 in Blender

Another example in Go, to show that it's not limited to C/C++: https://try.gitea.io/drSybren/skyfill/commit/aa87c1c50db6dfd97ab53905097e43fce3c5568e

Expected behaviour

Expected would be to see the highlighting like done when viewing the file regularly (of course with red/green background for the added/removed lines in the diff):

Gitea Version

1.19.0+dev-649-g2093ca517

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

Yes

Log Gist

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Screenshots

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Git Version

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Operating System

No response

How are you running Gitea?

Self-built from Git

Database

PostgreSQL

[wxiaoguang]

I guess it's caused by that Gitea renders the diff page line by line, then highlight doesn't work (the comments are processed line by line). That's why the comment highlight works for whole file rendering, but doesn't work for the diff/compare page.

Maybe related to:

• Syntax Highlighting Errors when Diffing - Fixed Format Fortran #19684
• PHP Syntax Highlighting does not working in review mode #21970

[a1012112796]

looks that's because gitea hasn't checking language by file name and content like file view. but it's sound not a easy job (how to get file content ? single file name always not enough for checking language). I'd like tag this issue as kind/enhancement instead of kind/bug .

ref:

gitea/services/gitdiff/gitdiff.go

Lines 1156 to 1160 in 443dcc2

	if language, has := attrs["linguist-language"]; has && language != "unspecified" && language != "" {
	diffFile.Language = language
	} else if language, has := attrs["gitlab-language"]; has && language != "unspecified" && language != "" {
	diffFile.Language = language
	}

[wxiaoguang]

Not only a "language" problem, but the highlighter need all the lines together to do highlight correctly. Otherwise when the highlighter sees the second line of the comment without /*, it doesn't know it's in the comment context.

[drsybren]

I'd like tag this issue as kind/enhancement instead of kind/bug .

I would still argue this is a bug, as the highlighting is clearly wrong.

[silverwind]

Yes, the main reason is diff highlighting is line-by-line so all multiline stuff breaks. We should instead feed both the "before" and "after" documents separately to chroma and then use those highlighted lines to replace the lines with highlighted ones in the diff.

I'm pretty sure this issue is duplicate.

[wxiaoguang]

This problem is quite challenging. Because at the moment many Diff Lines are provided by git commands without highlight. If we want to highlight the file first then do the diff to get Diff Lines, then the diff code should be (nearly) totally rewritten.

There could be a intermediate solution: git provides the diff lines -> gitea parses the diff lines -> git merge (join) the diff lines (update: for every hunk, but not join all chunks) as a temp file content and highlight it -> then gitea splits the highlighted content into lines as diff lines.

Correct me if I am wrong.

[lunny]

Could we highlight every section?
Storing the diff as a patch file may be useful for a second time CPU reduction.

[lunny]

I mean the struct of DiffLineSectionInfo

[silverwind]

Could we highlight every section?

If you mean the diff hunks: It may be an improvement, but will not completely fix the issue. A complete fix can only to be to highlight the whole "before" and "after" files and map back the highlighted lines into the diff lines.

Imagine a file that only consists of one big muliline string, spanning hundres of lines. git diff will give a context of +/- 3 lines to a one-line edit. Highlighting a hunk in the middle will still be incorrect.

Also, highlighting diff hunks may result in even more broken cases because added/removed lines are intermingled, so it will definitely confuse chroma.

[wxiaoguang]

Could we highlight every section?

That's my "an intermediate solution" above. However it is only an intermediate solution, you would still lose the correct context because the diff hunk may only contain a few lines, there might be no /* in the hunk.

[silverwind]

I doubt highlighting hunks as a whole will improve the situation much, I fear it may only make it worse.

[wxiaoguang]

hunks as a whole ... I fear it may only make it worse.

Yup, if the a hunk only contains /* but doesn't contain */, the remaining hunks are all rendered as "comment", not good.