From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alias: detect loops in mixed execution mode
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:52:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8hgdh5m.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181019220946.GB31563@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, Oct 19 2018, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:28:22AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> > - string_list_append(&cmd_list, *argv[0]);
>> > + add_cmd_history(&env, &cmd_list, *argv[0]);
>> >
>> > /*
>> > * It could be an alias -- this works around the insanity
>>
>> Just to sanity check an assumption of mine: One thing I didn't do is use
>> sq_quote_buf() and sq_dequote_to_argv() like we do for
>> CONFIG_DATA_ENVIRONMENT. This is because in the case of config we need
>> to deal with:
>>
>> $ git config alias.cfgdump
>> !env
>> $ git -c x.y=z -c "foo.bar='baz'" cfgdump|grep baz
>> GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS='x.y=z' 'foo.bar='\''baz'\'''
>>
>> But in this case I don't see how a command-name would ever contain
>> whitespace. So we skip quoting and just delimit by space.
>
> Alias names cannot currently contain whitespace, because it's not
> allowed in the key. However, we've discussed making the syntax
> alias.<name>.command, which would then make it possible.
>
> Whether anyone would use that is a different question, but hey,
> apparently some people think "My Documents" is a good name for a
> directory. ;)
I'll just leave this part as it is for now. If we ever have commands
with whitespace this'll be the least of our worries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-20 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 8:54 [RFC PATCH v2] Allow aliases that include other aliases Tim Schumacher
2018-09-05 15:48 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-05 19:02 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-05 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-05 19:12 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-05 17:34 ` Jeff King
2018-09-05 20:02 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-06 13:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 14:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-18 22:57 ` [PATCH] alias: detect loops in mixed execution mode Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-19 8:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-19 22:09 ` Jeff King
2018-10-20 10:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-10-19 22:07 ` Jeff King
2018-10-20 11:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-20 18:58 ` Jeff King
2018-10-20 19:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 21:15 ` Jeff King
2018-10-22 21:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-22 1:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-26 8:39 ` Jeff King
2018-10-26 12:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-29 3:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-29 14:17 ` Jeff King
2018-09-05 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH v2] Allow aliases that include other aliases Junio C Hamano
2018-09-06 10:16 ` [PATCH v3] " Tim Schumacher
2018-09-06 14:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 14:57 ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 15:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 16:18 ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 19:05 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-06 19:17 ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 14:59 ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-06 19:05 ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 19:31 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-07 22:44 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] Add support for nested aliases Tim Schumacher
2018-09-07 22:44 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/3] Show the call history when an alias is looping Tim Schumacher
2018-09-08 13:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-08 16:29 ` Jeff King
2018-09-07 22:44 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/3] t0014: Introduce alias testing suite Tim Schumacher
2018-09-07 23:38 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-14 23:12 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-16 7:21 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-08 13:28 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] Add support for nested aliases Duy Nguyen
2018-09-16 7:46 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-17 15:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-21 12:45 ` Tim Schumacher
2018-09-21 15:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-16 7:50 ` [PATCH v5 " Tim Schumacher
2018-09-16 7:50 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] Show the call history when an alias is looping Tim Schumacher
2018-09-16 7:50 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] t0014: Introduce an alias testing suite Tim Schumacher
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