git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Olga Telezhnaya <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:30:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o99iwmjn.fsf@0x63.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa7ldkbwr.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>


Junio C Hamano writes:
> That way, we can handle %(trailers:only=bogo) more sensibly,
> no?  Syntactically we can recognize that the user wanted to give
> 'bogo' as the value to 'only', and say "'bogo' is not a boolean" if
> we did so.

I agree that proper error reporting for the pretty formatting strings
would be great. But that would depart from the current extremely crude
error handling where incorrect formatting placeholders are just left
unexpanded. How would such change in error handling be done safely, wrt
backwards compatibility changes?

To get good diagnostics for incorrect formatting strings I think the way
forward is to have the formatting strings parsed once into some kind of
AST or machine (as also mentioned by Jeff) that is just executed many
times, instead of parsed each time like today.

 anders

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-28 12:50 [PATCH] pretty: Add %(trailer:X) to display single trailer Anders Waldenborg
2018-10-29  4:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-29 14:14 ` Jeff King
2018-10-29 17:05   ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-10-31 20:27     ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 23:01       ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-01 18:42         ` Jeff King
2018-11-04 15:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] %(trailers) improvements in pretty format Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-04 15:22   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-04 15:22   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] pretty: allow showing specific trailers Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-04 18:14     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-05  3:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05  3:52         ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-05  8:26       ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-05  9:00         ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-05  5:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-04 15:22   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] pretty: add support for "nokey" option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-04 15:22   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] pretty: extract fundamental placeholders to separate function Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-05  2:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05  8:32       ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-06  1:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-04 15:22   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-05  2:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05 18:24       ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-06  1:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05  5:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-04 17:40   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] %(trailers) improvements in pretty format Eric Sunshine
2018-11-05  7:09     ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-18 11:44   ` [PATCH v3 " Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-18 11:44     ` [PATCH v3 1/5] pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-18 11:44     ` [PATCH v3 2/5] pretty: allow showing specific trailers Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-20  5:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-20  5:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-25 23:02         ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-26  3:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-26  6:56             ` Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-26  7:52               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-18 11:44     ` [PATCH v3 3/5] pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-20  8:14       ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-18 11:44     ` [PATCH v3 4/5] strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-18 11:44     ` [PATCH v3 5/5] pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2018-11-20  8:25       ` Eric Sunshine
2018-12-08 16:36 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] %(trailers) improvements in pretty format Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 1/7] doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 2/7] pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-10  8:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-18 21:30       ` Anders Waldenborg [this message]
2019-01-29 16:55         ` Jeff King
2019-01-29 21:23           ` Anders Waldenborg
     [not found]             ` <CAL21Bmmx=EO+R2t+KviNekDhU3fc0wjCcmUmbzLa14bb0PAmHA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-01-31 18:46               ` Anders Waldenborg
2019-02-02  9:14                 ` Оля Тележная
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 3/7] pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 4/7] pretty: allow showing specific trailers Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-10  8:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 5/7] pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 6/7] strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals Anders Waldenborg
2018-12-08 16:36   ` [PATCH v4 7/7] pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] %(trailers) improvements in pretty format Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 1/7] doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 2/7] pretty: Allow %(trailers) options with explicit value Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 22:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-29  6:45       ` Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-29 16:57         ` Jeff King
2019-01-29  6:49       ` [PATCH v5 2/7 update] pretty: allow " Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 3/7] pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 4/7] pretty: allow showing specific trailers Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 5/7] pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 6/7] strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals Anders Waldenborg
2019-01-28 21:33   ` [PATCH v5 7/7] pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers) Anders Waldenborg

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87o99iwmjn.fsf@0x63.nu \
    --to=anders@0x63.nu \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com \
    --cc=peff@peff.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).