From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com,
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:48:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtubnf568.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed67b7489719a01c88d7a6765e7499c1157da32e.1648146897.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:34:57 +0000")
"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
>
> The implementation of test_subcommand_inexact() was originally
> introduced in e4d0c11c0 (repack: respect kept objects with '--write-midx
> -b', 2021-12-20) with the intention to allow finding a subcommand based
> on an initial set of arguments. The inexactness was intended as a way to
> allow flexible options beyond that initial set, as opposed to
> test_subcommand() which requires that the full list of options is
> provided in its entirety.
>
> The implementation began by copying test_subcommand() and replaced the
> repeated argument 'printf' statement to append ".*" instead of "," to
> each argument. This has a few drawbacks:
>
> 1. Most importantly, this repeats the use of ".*" within 'expr', so the
> inexact match is even more flexible than expected. It allows the list
> of arguments to exist as a subsequence (with any other items included
> between those arguments).
>
> 2. The line 'expr="$(expr%,}"' that previously removed a trailing comma
> now no longer does anything, since the string ends with ".*".
>
> Both of these issues are fixed by keeping the addition of the comma in
> the printf statement, then adding ".*" after stripping out the trailing
> comma.
>
> All existing tests continue to pass with this change. There was one
> instance from t7700-repack.sh that was taking advantage of this
> flexibility, but it was removed in the previous change.
Of course all existing tests continue to pass, as we no longer have
any user of test_subcommand_inexact after the previous step ;-).
Among
(1) doing nothing,
(2) removing, and
(3) clarifying the implementation,
my preference would be 2 > 1 > 3. If we add
(4) clarify the implementation and document what kind of inexactness we
tolerate with an updated comment"
to the mix, that would come before all 3 others, though.
Perhaps squash something like this in?
t/test-lib-functions.sh | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git i/t/test-lib-functions.sh w/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 0f439c99d6..6f6afae847 100644
--- i/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ w/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -1789,8 +1789,8 @@ test_subcommand () {
}
# Check that the given command was invoked as part of the
-# trace2-format trace on stdin, but without an exact set of
-# arguments.
+# trace2-format trace on stdin, but only require that the
+# initial arguments are given as specified.
#
# test_subcommand [!] <command> <args>... < <trace>
#
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-24 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-21 20:34 [PATCH] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-22 15:17 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-23 14:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-23 14:55 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-23 21:45 ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-23 23:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-24 15:42 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-24 16:02 ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-24 16:39 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-24 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-24 18:10 ` Abhradeep Chakraborty
2022-03-25 0:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25 8:13 ` Abhradeep Chakraborty
2022-03-24 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-24 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] t7700: check post-condition in kept-pack test Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-24 18:58 ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-25 13:55 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-25 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25 17:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-25 17:36 ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-25 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-24 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-24 18:49 ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-24 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-03-25 14:03 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-25 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-25 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] t7700: check post-condition in kept-pack test Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-25 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] test-lib-functions: remove test_subcommand_inexact Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-30 2:44 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact Taylor Blau
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