Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 10:27:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > And I think this has to be stderr. We're polluting the output of the > > aliased command with our extra message, so we have two choices: > > > > 1. Pollute stderr, and risk copious stdout (or a pager) scr

Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] reflog expire: cover reflog from all worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:11 PM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt > @@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ Options for `expire` > +--single-worktree:: > + By default when `--all` is specified, reflo

Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > And I think this has to be stderr. We're polluting the output of the > aliased command with our extra message, so we have two choices: > > 1. Pollute stderr, and risk copious stdout (or a pager) scrolling it > off the screen. > > 2. Pollute stdout, at which point our

Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] revision.c: better error reporting on ref from different worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:11 PM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > Make use of the new ref aliases to pass refs from another worktree > around and access them from the current ref store instead. This does > not change any functionality, but when a problem arises, we would like > the reported messages t

Re: [PATCH] Improvement to only call Git Credential Helper once

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 12:06:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > Wow, what's old is new again. Here's more or less the same patch from > > 2012: > > > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20120407033417.ga13...@sigill.intra.peff.net/ > > > > Unfortunately, some people seem t

Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] refs: new ref types to make per-worktree refs visible to all worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:10 PM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > The main worktree has to be treated specially because well.. it's Nit: s/well../well.../ > special from the beginning. So HEAD from the main worktree is > acccessible via the name "main-worktree/HEAD" instead of > "worktrees/main/HEAD

Re: [PATCH] fetch: replace string-list used as a look-up table with a hashmap

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:31:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > The only funny thing is that you have to "dereference" the iterator like > > this: > > > > struct list_head *pos; > > struct actual_thing *item; > > ... > > item = list_entry(pos, struct actual_thing, list_member); > > > >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] roll wt_status_state into wt_status and populate in the collect phase

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:55 PM Stephen P. Smith wrote: > Status variables were initialized in the collect phase and some > variables were later freed in the print functions. > > A "struct wt_status" used to be sufficient for the output phase to > work. It was designed to be filled in the collect

Re: [PATCH 1/1] roll wt_status_state into wt_status and populate in the collect phase

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:55 AM Taylor Blau wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 09:49:36PM -0700, Stephen P. Smith wrote: > > When updating the collect and print functions, it was found that > > status variables were initialized in the collect phase and some > > variables were later freed in the prin

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] worktree: add per-worktree config files

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:30 AM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > A new repo extension is added, worktreeConfig. When it is present: > [...] > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt > @@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE > The Git

Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 10:39:54AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Suppose "git foo" is aliased to a command "git bar". > > The best case is when "git bar -h" knows that it is asked to give us > a short usage. We get "foo is aliased to bar" followed by the short > usage for "bar" and everything i

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] t1300: extract and use test_cmp_config()

2018-09-29 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:30 AM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > In many config-related tests it's common to check if a config variable > has expected value and we want to print the differences when the test > fails. Doing it the normal way is three lines of shell code. Let's add > a function do to

Re: [PATCH] fetch: replace string-list used as a look-up table with a hashmap

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > So yet another alternative here is to just define a single hashmap that > stores void pointers. That also throws away some type safety, but is > maybe conceptually simpler. I dunno. I was tempted to try that route, which would essentially give us "if you are abusing string-li

Re: Git Evolve

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefan Xenos writes: > What is the evolve command? > ... > - Systems like gerrit would no longer need to rely on "change-id" tags > in commit comments to associate commits with the change that they > edit, since git itself would have that information. > ... > Is anyone else interested in this? Pl

Git Evolve

2018-09-29 Thread Stefan Xenos
Hello, List! I'm interested in porting something like Mercurial's evolve command to Git. I'll be following up with a formal proposal shortly, but before I do I thought I'd introduce myself to the list and find out if anyone else is interested in this topic. What is the evolve command? Imagine yo

Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: approximate no_dependents with filter

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Tan writes: > This was prompted by a user at $DAY_JOB who had a partial clone > excluding trees, and had a workflow that only required tree objects (and > not blobs). > > This will hopefully make partial clones excluding trees (with the > "tree:0" filter) a bit better, in that if an oper

Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

2018-09-29 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Junio C Hamano 2018-09-29 > I also expect folks who are used to "git grep --re" to summon > the only option of the command that begins with that prefix to start > complaining that they now have to type "--recurs" instead. Fwiw I was just asking about -r. There doesn't have to be a correspondi

[PATCH v2 8/8] reflog expire: cover reflog from all worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Reported-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy --- Documentation/git-reflog.txt | 7 ++- builtin/reflog.c | 22 +++--- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt index 47

[PATCH v2 2/8] Add a place for (not) sharing stuff between worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
When multiple worktrees are used, we need rules to determine if something belongs to one worktree or all of them. Instead of keeping adding rules when new stuff comes (*), have a generic rule: - Inside $GIT_DIR, which is per-worktree by default, add $GIT_DIR/common which is always shared. New fe

[PATCH v2 7/8] fsck: check HEAD and reflog from other worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
fsck is a repo-wide operation and should check all references no matter which worktree they are associated to. Reported-by: Jeff King Helped-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy --- builtin/fsck.c | 55 ++--- t/t1450-fsck.sh | 35 ++

[PATCH v2 6/8] fsck: Move fsck_head_link() to get_default_heads() to avoid some globals

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
From: Elijah Newren This will make it easier to check the HEAD of other worktrees from fsck. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy --- builtin/fsck.c | 27 --- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/fsck.c b/b

[PATCH v2 5/8] revision.c: better error reporting on ref from different worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Make use of the new ref aliases to pass refs from another worktree around and access them from the current ref store instead. This does not change any functionality, but when a problem arises, we would like the reported messages to mention full ref aliases, like this: fatal: bad object worktre

[PATCH v2 1/8] refs.c: indent with tabs, not spaces

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy --- refs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index a7a75b4cc0..9f7268d5fe 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ enum ref_type ref_type(const char *refname) return REF_TYPE_PER_WORK

[PATCH v2 0/8] fix per-worktree ref iteration in fsck/reflog expire

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
v2 changes - more documentation - main/ prefix is renamed to main-worktree/ to reduce ambiguation chances and make it clearer - refs/local is renamed to refs/worktree - bug fix in is_main_pseudoref_syntax() and is_other_pseudoref_syntax() Interdiff diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt

[PATCH v2 3/8] refs: new ref types to make per-worktree refs visible to all worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
One of the problems with multiple worktree is accessing per-worktree refs of one worktree from another worktree. This was sort of solved by multiple ref store, where the code can open the ref store of another worktree and has access to the ref space of that worktree. The problem with this is repor

[PATCH v2 4/8] revision.c: correct a parameter name

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
This function is a callback of for_each_reflog() which will pass a ref name as the first argument, not a path (to a reflog file). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy --- revision.c | 7 --- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index e18bd530e4

Re: [PATCH] Improvement to only call Git Credential Helper once

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > Wow, what's old is new again. Here's more or less the same patch from > 2012: > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20120407033417.ga13...@sigill.intra.peff.net/ > > Unfortunately, some people seem to rely on this multi-helper behavior. I > recommend reading the whole thread, as

[PATCH v2 0/1] wt-status-state-cleanup

2018-09-29 Thread Stephen P. Smith
Junio suggested a cleanup patch, jc/wt-status-state-cleanup, which is the basis for this patch. This patch uses ss/wt-status-committable. Updated commit comment and removed one extra blank line insertion. Stephen P. Smith (1): roll wt_status_state into wt_status and populate in the collect phas

[PATCH v2 1/1] roll wt_status_state into wt_status and populate in the collect phase

2018-09-29 Thread Stephen P. Smith
Status variables were initialized in the collect phase and some variables were later freed in the print functions. A "struct wt_status" used to be sufficient for the output phase to work. It was designed to be filled in the collect phase and consumed in the output phase, but over time some fields

Re: [PATCH 7/8] fsck: check HEAD and reflog from other worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 04:41:32AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > + grep "main/HEAD: detached HEAD points" out > > This message doesn't get localized, so no need for > test_i18ngrep(). Okay. Don't remind me. I started to mark all strings in fsck for translation and faced the reality that I

Re: [PATCH] fetch: fix compilation warning

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramsay Jones writes: > You probably already know, but I had to add this on top of the 'pu' > branch to get a clean compile tonight (your 'jc/war-on-string-list' > branch). It was not just about squelching a warning but simply broken code that deserved to be warned/errored. I think what we have

Re: [PATCH] fetch: replace string-list used as a look-up table with a hashmap

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 03:59:08PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > >> > +struct refname_hash_entry { >> > + struct hashmap_entry ent; /* must be the first member */ >> >> $ git grep "struct hashmap_entry" reveals that we have another >> convention that we follow but not d

Re: [PATCH 3/8] refs: new ref types to make per-worktree refs visible to all worktrees

2018-09-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:16 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes: > > > The main worktree has to be treated specially because well.. it's > > special from the beginning. So HEAD from the main worktree is > > acccessible via the name "main/HEAD" (we can't use > > "worktrees/

Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] eoie: add End of Index Entry (EOIE) extension

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Duy Nguyen writes: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 03:54:38PM -0400, Ben Peart wrote: >> + >> +#define EOIE_SIZE (4 + GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ) /* <4-byte offset> + <20-byte hash> >> */ >> +#define EOIE_SIZE_WITH_HEADER (4 + 4 + EOIE_SIZE) /* <4-byte signature> + >> <4-byte length> + EOIE_SIZE */ > > If you ma

Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > Right, I'm proposing only to add the extra message and then continue as > usual. > > It is a little funny, I guess, if you have a script which doesn't > respond to "-h", because you'd get our "foo is aliased to git-bar" > message to stderr, followed by who-knows-what. But as l

Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

2018-09-29 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > This --recursive (-r) option does nothing, and is purely here to > appease people who have "grep -r ..." burned into their muscle memory. > > Requested-by: Christoph Berg > Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > --- I personally am not all that sympathetic

Re: [BUG] Segfault in "git submodule"

2018-09-29 Thread Raymond Jennings
I have a repo, but it appears to be specific to staging area state. It only segfaults when I have a certain file deleted. Where do you want me to upload it? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 8:34 AM Duy Nguyen wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:31 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: > > > #1 refs_resol

Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

2018-09-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:25 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 29 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:58 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > > wrote: > >> > >> This --recursive (-r) option does nothing, and is purely here to > >> appease people who have "grep -r ...

Re: [BUG] Segfault in "git submodule"

2018-09-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:31 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > #1 refs_resolve_ref_unsafe (refs=0x0, > > refname=refname@entry=0x55e863062253 "HEAD", > > resolve_flags=resolve_flags@entry=1, oid=oid@entry=0x7ffdc834b1c0, > > flags=flags@entry=0x7ffdc834b1bc) at refs.c:1493 refs is NULL. It l

[PATCH v2 2/2] worktree: add per-worktree config files

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
A new repo extension is added, worktreeConfig. When it is present: - Repository config reading by default includes $GIT_DIR/config _and_ $GIT_DIR/config.worktree. "config" file remains shared in multiple worktree setup. - The special treatment for core.bare and core.worktree, to stay e

[PATCH v2 1/2] t1300: extract and use test_cmp_config()

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
In many config-related tests it's common to check if a config variable has expected value and we want to print the differences when the test fails. Doing it the normal way is three lines of shell code. Let's add a function do to all this (and a little more). This function has uses outside t1300 as

[PATCH v2 0/2] Per-worktree config files

2018-09-29 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Besides various doc/test changes. v2 has two code changes - "git config --worktree" on a multiple worktree setup _without_ the new extension will now barf. The user is supposed to RTFM and enable the extension manually. - I failed to update setup code to pick up config from per-worktree fil

Re: [BUG] Segfault in "git submodule"

2018-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Sep 29 2018, Raymond Jennings wrote: > [New LWP 19644] > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". > Core was generated by `git submodule--helper status'. > Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > #0

Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

2018-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Sep 29 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:58 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: >> >> This --recursive (-r) option does nothing, and is purely here to >> appease people who have "grep -r ..." burned into their muscle memory. > > GNU grep -r recurses infinitely but Git

[BUG] Segfault in "git submodule"

2018-09-29 Thread Raymond Jennings
[New LWP 19644] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `git submodule--helper status'. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 refs_read_raw_ref (type=, referent=, oid=, refname=, ref_st

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Sep 28 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> That said, that seems to me like a lot of work to avoid adding some >>> patches to "next" that belong in "next" anyway. I understand why the >>> Git for Windows main

Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

2018-09-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:58 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > This --recursive (-r) option does nothing, and is purely here to > appease people who have "grep -r ..." burned into their muscle memory. GNU grep -r recurses infinitely but Git grep also has --max-depth. How do these interact? My

[PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

2018-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
This --recursive (-r) option does nothing, and is purely here to appease people who have "grep -r ..." burned into their muscle memory. Requested-by: Christoph Berg Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason --- On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:10 PM Christoph Berg wrote: > > I often use "grep -r $patter

wishlist: git grep -r

2018-09-29 Thread Christoph Berg
I often use "grep -r $pattern" to recursively grep a source tree. If that takes too long, I hit ^C and tag "git" in front of the command line and re-run it. git then complains "error: unknown switch `r'" because "git grep" is naturally recursive. Could we have "git grep -r" accept the argument for

Re: [PATCH] worktree: add per-worktree config files

2018-09-29 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 4:21 PM Taylor Blau wrote: > > @@ -602,6 +605,7 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char > > *prefix) > >PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION); > > > > if (use_global_config + use_system_config + use_local_config + > > + u

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-29 Thread SZEDER Gábor
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:57:11PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Another way to look at it, which is closer to what I was thinking about, > is to just view GFW as some alternate universe "next" branch (which by > my count is ~2-3k commits ahead of master[1]). > 1. $ git log --max-parents

Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] split-index: don't compare stat data of entries already marked for split index

2018-09-29 Thread SZEDER Gábor
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:14:29AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > Note that comparing the cached data in copied and original entries in > > > > s/cached data/cached stat data/ ? I was confused for a bit. > > No, it's indeed cached data, but now that you mention it, the subject > line does need

Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] split-index: don't compare stat data of entries already marked for split index

2018-09-29 Thread SZEDER Gábor
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 07:36:08AM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:24:58PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > When unpack_trees() constructs a new index, it copies cache entries > > from the original index [1]. prepare_to_write_split_index() has to > > deal with this, and it has

Re: [PATCH] help: allow redirecting to help for aliased command

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > > it, and then it is up to the alias to handle "-h" sensibly. > > I'd be nervous about doing this, though, especially if we introduce this > without a new opt-in config option (which seems to be the direction the > discussion

Re: [PATCH] Improvement to only call Git Credential Helper once

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:37:16PM -0400, Kyle Hubert wrote: > When calling the Git Credential Helper that is set in the git config, > the get command can return a credential. Git immediately turns around > and calls the store command, even though that credential was just > retrieved by the Helper

Re: [PATCH] t1400: drop debug `echo` to actually execute `test`

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 05:43:59PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote: > Instead of running `test "foo" = "$(bar)"`, we prefix the whole thing > with `echo`. Comparing to nearby tests makes it clear that this is just > debug leftover. This line has actually been modified four times since it > was introduce

Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to split index

2018-09-29 Thread SZEDER Gábor
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 07:21:36AM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:24:59PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > diff --git a/t/t1701-racy-split-index.sh b/t/t1701-racy-split-index.sh > > index fbb77046da..5dc221ef38 100755 > > --- a/t/t1701-racy-split-index.sh > > +++ b/t/t1701-racy

Re: Request for examples on git log --format:tformat

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:29:32AM -0700, Daniel Lo wrote: > I was reviewing the tformat parameters on: > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log (middle of the page). > > Specifically: %<|(): make the next placeholder take at least until > Nth columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary > > I fo

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: How to document new APIs

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:50:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > -- >8 -- > Subject: CodingGuidelines: document the API in *.h files > > It makes it harder to let the API description and the reality drift > apart if the doc is kept close to the implementation or the header > of the API. We have

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: How to document new APIs

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:14:12AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > I think other high-level concepts that are _not_ APIs (e.g., file > > formats, protocol, etc) could go into technical/. > > That is what I meant with high level concepts. Anything that talks > about or implies the existence of a f

Re: [PATCH] strbuf.h: format according to coding guidelines

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 01:11:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I am mildly against giving names to obvious ones. > > Just to make sure nobody listening from sidelines do not > misunderstand, ones like getwholeline_fd() that takes more than one > parameter with the same time is a prime exampl

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsPrefixes

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 03:05:57PM -0700, Taylor Blau wrote: > > > For example, to advertise only tags, a caller using > > > 'core.alternateRefsCommand' would have to do: > > > > > > $ git config core.alternateRefsCommand ' \ > > > git -C "$1" for-each-ref refs/tags --format="%(objectname)

Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] transport.c: introduce core.alternateRefsCommand

2018-09-29 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 03:04:10PM -0700, Taylor Blau wrote: > > Well, you also need to pass the path so it knows which repo to look at. > > Which I think is the primary reason we do it, but behaving differently > > for each alternate is another option. > > Yeah. I think that the clearer argument