From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] run-command.c: print env vars when GIT_TRACE is set
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:07:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180111100734.GA17274@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180110104835.22905-1-pclouds@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 05:48:35PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> Occasionally submodule code could execute new commands with GIT_DIR set
> to some submodule. GIT_TRACE prints just the command line which makes it
> hard to tell that it's not really executed on this repository.
>
> Print env variables in this case. Note that the code deliberately ignore
> variables unsetting because there are so many of them (to keep git
> environment clean for the next process) and really hard to read.
I like this, and I'm pretty sure it would have helped me debug at least
once in the past. I did notice one funny thing, though I think it was
largely there before.
The output for a single command is pretty shell-like due to the quoting:
$ GIT_TRACE=1 ./git upload-pack . >/dev/null
[...]run_command: 'git-upload-pack' '.'
You could copy and paste that to a shell if you wanted. And with
environment variables, that remains so:
$ GIT_TRACE=1 ./git ls-remote https://github.com/git/git >/dev/null
[...]run_command: 'GIT_DIR=.git' 'git-remote-https' 'https://[...]'
But if we're actually running a command via the shell, it all gets
quoted as one argument:
$ GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_PAGER='foo | bar' ./git log
[...]run_command: 'LV=-c' 'foo | bar'
which is kind of weird, as that's not something that can be run in a
shell. This isn't introduced by your patch at all, but I noticed it more
because of the shell-like environment variable output.
We actually used to print a separate:
exec: /bin/sh -c 'foo | bar'
line when we invoked a shell, which would arguably be the right place to
show the env variables for such a case. But that went away with
3967e25be1 (run-command: prepare command before forking, 2017-04-19).
I think it might be helpful if we added back in "/bin/sh -c" to the
run_command line when "use_shell" is in effect (and when we're not doing
our "skip the shell" trickery). But that's totally orthogonal to your
patch.
And anyway, it's just tracing output, so I don't think it's incredibly
important either way. It was just something I noticed while looking at
your patch's output.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 10:07 UTC|newest]
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2018-01-10 10:48 [PATCH] run-command.c: print env vars when GIT_TRACE is set Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-10 18:09 ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-10 19:14 ` Stefan Beller
2018-01-10 19:26 ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-10 19:35 ` Stefan Beller
2018-01-11 9:47 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-11 11:25 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-11 17:53 ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-11 18:20 ` Stefan Beller
2018-01-11 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-12 9:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-12 9:56 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-12 9:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] trace.c: introduce trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-12 13:05 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 13:11 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 9:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] trace.c: print program 'git' when child_process.git_cmd is set Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-12 13:05 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 9:56 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] trace.c: print env vars in trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-12 13:13 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 9:56 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] trace.c: be smart about what env to print " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-12 13:33 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-12 18:45 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 19:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-12 19:23 ` Jeff King
2018-01-12 20:28 ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-12 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-13 4:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-13 6:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-12 13:36 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] run-command.c: print env vars when GIT_TRACE is set Jeff King
2018-01-12 13:38 ` [PATCH 5/4] sq_quote_argv: drop maxlen parameter Jeff King
2018-01-12 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-12 13:39 ` [PATCH 6/4] trace: avoid unnecessary quoting Jeff King
2018-01-12 18:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] run-command.c: print env vars when GIT_TRACE is set Stefan Beller
2018-01-12 17:19 ` Stefan Beller
2018-01-13 6:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] Trace env variables in run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] sq_quote_argv: drop maxlen parameter Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] trace: avoid unnecessary quoting Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] trace.c: move strbuf_release() out of print_trace_line() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 7:14 ` Jeff King
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] trace.c: introduce trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] trace.c: print program 'git' when child_process.git_cmd is set Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] trace.c: print env vars in trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 7:25 ` Jeff King
2018-01-16 22:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-16 22:20 ` Stefan Beller
2018-01-17 1:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-13 6:49 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] trace.c: print new cwd " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-13 7:26 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] Trace env variables in run_command() Jeff King
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] sq_quote_argv: drop maxlen parameter Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] trace: avoid unnecessary quoting Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] trace.c: move strbuf_release() out of print_trace_line() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-16 18:24 ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] trace.c: introduce trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-17 22:21 ` Jeff King
2018-01-17 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] trace.c: print program 'git' when child_process.git_cmd is set Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] trace.c: print env vars in trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-16 18:32 ` Brandon Williams
2018-01-15 10:59 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] trace.c: print new cwd " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] Trace env variables in run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] sq_quote_argv: drop maxlen parameter Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] trace: avoid unnecessary quoting Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] trace.c: move strbuf_release() out of print_trace_line() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] run-command.c: introduce trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] run-command.c: print program 'git' when tracing git_cmd mode Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] run-command.c: print env vars in trace_run_command() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-18 9:45 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] run-command.c: print new cwd " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-01-19 21:39 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] Trace env variables in run_command() Jeff King
2018-01-11 10:07 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-01-11 11:13 ` [PATCH] run-command.c: print env vars when GIT_TRACE is set Duy Nguyen
2018-01-11 18:21 ` Johannes Sixt
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