From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>, "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:07:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq37mol5w6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160801172459.wz7wigmytxpfvs22@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:24:59 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I'm not too worried about spaces here. This is a resurrection of an old
> discussion, and in all that time, I think the only realistic suggestions
> for built-in values have been pretty tame.
>
> If this were used to parse arbitrary user-provided runtime values, I'd
> be more concerned. But I'm not sure why we would need that. Your $EDITOR
> example is arbitrary shell code, and we let the shell handle it (modulo
> some efficiency shortcuts). Likewise, fancy runtime things should go in
> GIT_PAGER, where you can not only set options with spaces, but do fancy
> things like pipes, shell functions, etc.
>
> The use of stringify() here is funny to me; I think there is a cpp
> tokenizing step in the middle that will do things like gobble up
> whitespace (but I'm not sure if it has other possible effects). I think
> our more usual method here would be to C-quote in the Makefile (with the
> equivalent of 's/\\/\\\\/g; s/"/\\"/g'), and then pass it to the
> compiler as a string literal, like -DPAGER_ENV=\"$(PAGER_ENV_CQ_SQ\".
All sensible arguments, including the rationale to reject 2/2.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-01 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-01 1:05 [PATCH 0/2] add PAGER_ENV to build and core.pagerEnv to config Eric Wong
2016-08-01 1:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build Eric Wong
2016-08-01 1:43 ` brian m. carlson
2016-08-01 7:00 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-01 8:57 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-01 10:40 ` brian m. carlson
2016-08-01 17:24 ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-01 17:46 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-01 17:52 ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 18:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-01 18:07 ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 1:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] pager: implement core.pagerEnv in config Eric Wong
2016-08-01 17:28 ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 21:49 ` [PATCH 0/1 v2] add PAGER_ENV to build Eric Wong
2016-08-01 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/1 v2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build Eric Wong
2016-08-01 23:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-01 23:46 ` Jeff King
2016-08-02 21:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-01 23:56 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-02 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 16:19 ` Jeff King
2016-08-03 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 21:08 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-03 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 3:43 ` [PATCH v3] " Eric Wong
2016-08-04 5:34 ` Jeff King
2016-08-04 11:34 ` Eric Wong
2016-08-04 17:53 ` Jeff King
2016-08-04 11:40 ` [PATCH v4] " Eric Wong
2016-08-03 21:09 ` [PATCH 1/1 v2] " Jeff King
2016-08-01 21:59 ` [PATCH 0/1 v2] add PAGER_ENV to build Jeff King
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