From: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
To: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Cc: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, christian.couder@gmail.com,
gitster@pobox.com, liu.denton@gmail.com, sunshine@sunshineco.com,
Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] submodule: port subcommand 'set-branch' from shell to C
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:01:42 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528140142.GA1951@danh.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528122147.GA1983@danh.dev>
On 2020-05-28 19:21:47+0700, Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2020-05-27 22:43:58+0530, Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > + git ${wt_prefix:+-C "$wt_prefix"} ${prefix:+--super-prefix "$prefix"} submodule--helper set-branch ${GIT_QUIET:+--quiet} ${branch:+--branch $branch} ${default:+--default} -- "$@"
> >
> > > Danh questioned whether '$branch' needs to be quoted here. I too think it
> > > needs to be quoted unless I'm missing something.
> >
> > We want to do this because $branch is an argument right?
>
> We want to do this because we don't want to whitespace-split "$branch"
>
> Let's say, for some reason, this command was run:
>
> git submodule set-branch --branch "a-branch --branch another" a-submodule
Anyway, after typing this.
I'm thinking a bit, then re-read gitcli(7),
I think git-submodule is quite broken regarding to Git's guidelines:
-----------8<----------
Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are
scripting Git:
* it's preferred to use the non-dashed form of Git commands, which means that
you should prefer `git foo` to `git-foo`.
* splitting short options to separate words (prefer `git foo -a -b`
to `git foo -ab`, the latter may not even work).
* when a command-line option takes an argument, use the 'stuck' form. In
other words, write `git foo -oArg` instead of `git foo -o Arg` for short
options, and `git foo --long-opt=Arg` instead of `git foo --long-opt Arg`
for long options. An option that takes optional option-argument must be
written in the 'stuck' form.
------------>8--------------
Current Git, with and without this change, this command will fail:
git submodule set-branch --branch=a-branch a-submodule
Thus, a script conformed with gitcli(7) will fail.
(And our git-submodule(1) doesn't conform with gitcli(7), FWIW).
After this change, those commands will success:
git submodule--helper set-branch --branch a-branch a-submodule
git submodule set-branch --branch "a-branch --branch=another" a-submodule
(The second one was written for demonstration purpose only,
I don't expect it will success)
This isn't related to this change, and git-submodule(1) will be
rewritten in C in the very near future.
Just want to make sure it's awared.
>
> This version will run:
>
> git submodule--helper --branch a-branch --branch another a-submodule
>
> Which will success if there's a branch "another" in the "a-submodule".
> While that command should fail because we don't accept refname with
> space.
--
Danh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 16:38 [PATCH v3] submodule: port subcommand 'set-branch' from shell to C Shourya Shukla
2020-05-21 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-21 19:03 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-21 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-22 19:39 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-24 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-21 23:04 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-22 22:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-24 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-24 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-23 16:39 ` [PATCH v4] " Shourya Shukla
2020-05-23 18:49 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-05-23 23:18 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-27 17:13 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-28 12:21 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-05-28 14:01 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh [this message]
2020-05-28 15:55 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-06-02 16:35 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5] " Shourya Shukla
2020-06-02 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-03 0:12 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-06-03 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-04 7:17 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-06-04 7:49 ` Christian Couder
2020-06-04 15:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-02 19:01 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-06-02 19:10 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-06-02 19:45 ` Christian Couder
2020-06-04 7:09 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-06-04 19:26 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
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