From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Tim Schumacher" <timschumi@gmx.de>,
"Duy Nguyen" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alias: detect loops in mixed execution mode
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:23:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5zxuzsei.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181020185852.GA6234@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:58:53 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I agree it's probably quite rare, if it exists at all. But I also wonder
> how important looping alias protection is. It's also rare, and the
> outcome is usually "gee, I wonder why this is taking so long? ^C".
>
> At least that's my instinct. I don't remember having run into this at
> all myself (though certainly I have written my fair share of infinite
> loops in other systems, like bash aliases, and that is what happened).
Yup, that instict is shared with me, and I tend to prefer something
based on a simple counter for that reason.
> Would we print a long error message? I'd assume that we'd just recurse
> for longer and print one error message that says:
>
> fatal: woah, you're 1000-levels deep in Git commands!
>
> That doesn't help the user find the recursion, but re-running with
> GIT_TRACE=1 would make it pretty clear, I'd think.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-22 1:23 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
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 [this message]
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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