From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 13:48:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200908114812.GD6209@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2009081332020.54@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 01:32:56PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Gábor,
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:56:52AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > >
> > > Originally, all of Git's subcommands were implemented in their own
> > > executable/script, using the naming scheme `git-<command-name>`. When
> > > more and more functionality was turned into built-in commands (i.e. the
> > > `git` executable could run them without spawning a separate process),
> > > for backwards-compatibility, we hard-link the `git` executable to
> > > `git-<built-in>` for every built-in.
> > >
> > > This backwards-compatibility was needed to support scripts that called
> > > the dashed form, even if we deprecated that a _long_ time ago.
> > >
> > > For that reason, we just introduced a Makefile knob to skip linking
> > > them. To make sure that this keeps working, teach the CI
> > > (and PR) builds to skip generating those hard-links.
> > >
> > > This is actually not such a big change: e4597aae6590 (run test suite
> > > without dashed git-commands in PATH, 2009-12-02) made sure that our test
> > > suite does not require dashed commands. With this Makefile knob, the
> > > commitment is just a little stronger (running tests with `--with-dashes`
> > > would _still_ not see the dashed form of the built-ins).
> > >
> > > There is a subtle change in behavior with this patch, though: as we no
> > > longer even _build_ the dashed executables, running the test suite would
> > > fail if any of Git's scripted commands (e.g. `git-request-pull`) still
> > > This would have succeeded previously (and would have been unintentional,
> > > of course) because `bin-wrappers/git` sets `GIT_EXEC_PATH` to the
> > > top-level directory (which would still have contained, say,
> > > `git-rev-parse`).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > > ---
> > > ci/run-build-and-tests.sh | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh b/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh
> > > index 6c27b886b8..1df9402c3b 100755
> > > --- a/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh
> > > +++ b/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh
> > > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ windows*) cmd //c mklink //j t\\.prove "$(cygpath -aw "$cache_dir/.prove")";;
> > > *) ln -s "$cache_dir/.prove" t/.prove;;
> > > esac
> > >
> > > -make
> > > +make SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease
> >
> > Please make sure that this Makefile knob is set in all jobs building
> > and testing Git, or justify in the commit message why it isn't.
>
> The intention was to set it in all jobs (but the jury, AKA Junio, is still
> out on that). Did I not do that?
No; as mentioned earlier, the CI jobs using Docker containers don't
use 'ci/run-build-and-tests.sh', but 'ci/run-docker-build.sh' instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-17 9:07 [PATCH 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 4:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 12:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-24 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25 8:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-25 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-17 9:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 9:24 ` Jeff King
2020-08-17 5:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 21:37 ` Jeff King
2020-08-18 6:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 9:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 14:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 9:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25 8:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-24 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25 8:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-25 13:47 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-08-25 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 4:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-26 16:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-02 7:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-02 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-27 8:30 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-08-24 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 19:03 ` Jeff King
2020-08-24 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 11:56 ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 11:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 11:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 11:56 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-03 10:45 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-09-08 11:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-08 11:48 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2020-09-08 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 22:28 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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