diff-highlight: split code into modulejk/diff-highlight-module

The diff-so-fancy project is also written in perl, and most
of its users pipe diffs through both diff-highlight and
diff-so-fancy. It would be nice if this could be done in a
single script. So let's pull most of diff-highlight's code
into its own module which can be used by diff-so-fancy.

In addition, we'll abstract a few basic items like reading
from stdio so that a script using the module can do more
processing before or after diff-highlight handles the lines.
See the README update for more details.

One small downside is that the diff-highlight script must
now be built using the Makefile. There are ways around this,
but it quickly gets into perl arcana. Let's go with the
simple solution. As a bonus, our Makefile now respects the
PERL_PATH variable if it is set.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight.perl b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight.perl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b3e9c1f4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight.perl
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+package main;
+
+# Some scripts may not realize that SIGPIPE is being ignored when launching the
+# pager--for instance scripts written in Python.
+$SIG{PIPE} = 'DEFAULT';
+
+DiffHighlight::highlight_stdin();
+exit 0;