From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, sunshine@sunshineco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default`
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 18:29:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180405222949.GC29117@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180405025912.GB49902@syl.local>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 07:59:12PM -0700, Taylor Blau wrote:
> @@ -286,6 +288,16 @@ static int get_value(const char *key_, const char *regex_)
> config_with_options(collect_config, &values,
> &given_config_source, &config_options);
>
> + if (!values.nr && default_value) {
> + struct strbuf *item;
> + ALLOC_GROW(values.items, values.nr + 1, values.alloc);
> + item = &values.items[values.nr++];
> + strbuf_init(item, 0);
> + if (format_config(item, key_, default_value) < 0) {
> + exit(1);
> + }
> + }
Calling exit() explicitly is unusual for our code. Usually we would
either die() or propagate the error. Most of the types in
format_config() would die on bogus input, but a few code paths will
return an error.
What happens if a non-default value has a bogus format? E.g.:
$ git config foo.bar '~NoSuchUser'
$ git config --path foo.bar
fatal: failed to expand user dir in: '~NoSuchUser'
Oops. Despite us checking for an error return from
git_config_pathname(), it will always either return 0 or die(). So
that's not a good example. ;)
Let's try expiry-date:
$ git config foo.bar 'the first of octember'
$ git config --expiry-date foo.bar
error: 'the first of octember' for 'foo.bar' is not a valid timestamp
fatal: bad config line 7 in file .git/config
OK. So we call format_config() there from the actual collect_config()
callback, and the error gets propagated back to the config parser, which
then gives us an informative die(). What happens with your new code:
$ ./git config --default 'the first of octember' --type=expiry-date no.such.key
error: 'the first of octember' for 'no.such.key' is not a valid timestamp
It's obvious in this toy example, but that config call may be buried
deep in a script. It'd probably be nicer for that exit(1) to be
something like:
die(_("failed to format default config value"));
> +test_expect_success 'does not allow --default without --get' '
> + test_must_fail git config --default quux --unset a >output 2>&1 &&
> + test_i18ngrep "\-\-default is only applicable to" output
> +'
I think "a" here needs to be "a.section". I get:
error: key does not contain a section: a
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-05 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 2:17 [PATCH 0/4] Teach `--default` to `git-config(1)` Taylor Blau
2018-03-06 2:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] builtin/config: introduce `--default` Taylor Blau
2018-03-06 6:52 ` Jeff King
2018-03-06 7:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-03-06 7:08 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-03-06 2:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: list all type specifiers in config prose Taylor Blau
2018-03-06 6:52 ` Jeff King
2018-03-06 7:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-06 2:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] config.c: introduce 'git_config_color' to parse ANSI colors Taylor Blau
2018-03-06 6:53 ` Jeff King
2018-03-06 2:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] builtin/config: introduce `--color` type specifier Taylor Blau
2018-03-06 7:00 ` Jeff King
2018-03-06 2:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] Teach `--default` to `git-config(1)` Taylor Blau
2018-03-24 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 " Taylor Blau
2018-03-24 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] builtin/config: introduce `--default` Taylor Blau
2018-03-26 8:34 ` Jeff King
2018-03-29 1:31 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-24 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Documentation: list all type specifiers in config prose Taylor Blau
2018-03-26 8:55 ` Jeff King
2018-03-29 1:32 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-24 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] config.c: introduce 'git_config_color' to parse ANSI colors Taylor Blau
2018-03-24 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] builtin/config: introduce `--color` type specifier Taylor Blau
2018-03-26 9:16 ` Jeff King
2018-03-29 1:36 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-26 9:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Teach `--default` to `git-config(1)` Jeff King
2018-03-29 1:16 ` [PATCH v3 " Taylor Blau
2018-03-29 1:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default` Taylor Blau
2018-03-30 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-05 2:45 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-30 20:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-05 2:46 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-29 1:16 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] config.c: introduce 'git_config_color' to parse ANSI colors Taylor Blau
2018-03-30 20:26 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-05 2:47 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-29 1:16 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifier Taylor Blau
2018-03-30 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-05 2:48 ` Taylor Blau
2018-03-29 1:29 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Teach `--default` to `git-config(1)` Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 2:58 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] " Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 22:37 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <cover.1522896713.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
2018-04-05 2:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default` Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 22:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-04-06 5:40 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-08 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 0:20 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 22:40 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-06 5:50 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 2:59 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] config.c: introduce 'git_config_color' to parse ANSI colors Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 2:59 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifier Taylor Blau
2018-04-05 22:36 ` Jeff King
2018-04-05 22:52 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-05 22:53 ` Jeff King
2018-04-06 6:05 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 6:02 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 5:27 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] *** SUBJECT HERE *** Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 5:40 ` Jacob Keller
2018-04-06 5:29 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] builtin/config.c: prefer `--type=bool` over `--bool`, etc Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 5:32 ` Taylor Blau
[not found] ` <cover.1522992443.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
2018-04-06 5:29 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] builtin/config.c: treat type specifiers singularly Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 5:29 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] builtin/config.c: prefer `--type=bool` over `--bool`, etc Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 6:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-06 6:41 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 14:55 ` Jeff King
2018-04-07 1:00 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default` Taylor Blau
[not found] ` <cover.1522996150.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
2018-04-06 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] " Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 6:53 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-06 7:40 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-07 0:58 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-07 8:44 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-07 0:49 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-07 8:38 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-06 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] config.c: introduce 'git_config_color' to parse ANSI colors Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifier Taylor Blau
2018-04-06 7:29 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-07 0:42 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-10 0:18 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] Teach `--default` to `git-config(1)` Taylor Blau
[not found] ` <cover.1523319159.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
2018-04-10 0:18 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] builtin/config: introduce `--default` Taylor Blau
2018-04-10 1:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 0:18 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] config.c: introduce 'git_config_color' to parse ANSI colors Taylor Blau
2018-04-10 0:18 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] builtin/config: introduce `color` type specifier Taylor Blau
2018-04-10 0:18 ` Taylor Blau
2018-04-10 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
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