Re: [PATCH 0/3] A couple of CI fixes regarding the built-in add --patch

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Dscho

All three patches look good to me, thanks for working on them.

Phillip

On 30/08/2022 14:54, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> This is an attempt to address the concern Junio raised in
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq7d3gm1bl.fsf@gitster.g/: originally
> motivated by a test suite failure when running Git's test suite in Visual
> Studio, this pulls out the signed vs unsigned fix whose implications are
> potentially much wider than Visual C.
> 
> While in that space, I spent the time (which took almost as long as I
> expected
> [https://lore.kernel.org/git/nrr2312s-q256-61n7-2843-7r0s817rp432@tzk.qr/])
> to craft a semantic patch to scrutinize Git's source code for similar issues
> (narrator's voice: there were no other instances, what did ya expect?).
> 
> To verify the fix, I then worked on a patch to exercise the built-in git add
> -p in the test suite even when NO_PERL is set, and while developing this
> patch and validating it, I got really puzzled that the add -p test case in
> t6132 did not need to be guarded behind a PERL prereq. So this patch series
> also includes a fix for that.
> 
> The story arc that binds all of these patches together is that they all
> revolve around NO_PERL and CI issues that involve git add --patch.
> 
> Note: This patch series is based on ds/github-actions-use-newer-ubuntu (but
> probably applies cleanly even on maint) because I tried to develop a
> semantic patch to fix similar issues in the code base. However, I've since
> run into what looks like a bug in Coccinelle
> [https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/284]. My latest version of
> that semantic patch looks like this, but I stopped when running it on Git's
> source code triggered the bug for 66 of Git's .c files:
> 
> @@
> type T = { unsigned int };
> T:n b;
> type S != { unsigned int, size_t };
> S s;
> binary operator o != { &&, || };
> @@
> -s o b
> +s o (S)b
> 
> @@
> type T = { unsigned int };
> T:n b;
> type S != { unsigned int, size_t };
> S s;
> binary operator o != { &&, || };
> @@
> -b o s
> +(S)b o s
> 
> 
> Johannes Schindelin (3):
>    add -p: avoid ambiguous signed/unsigned comparison
>    t3701: test the built-in `add -i` regardless of NO_PERL
>    t6132(NO_PERL): do not run the scripted `add -p`
> 
>   add-patch.c                 | 2 +-
>   t/t3701-add-interactive.sh  | 4 ++--
>   t/t6132-pathspec-exclude.sh | 6 +++++-
>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: ef46584831268a83591412a33783caf866867482
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1340%2Fdscho%2Fbuilt-in-add-i-does-not-need-perl-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1340/dscho/built-in-add-i-does-not-need-perl-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1340