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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] built-in add -i/-p: treat SIGPIPE as EOF
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:03:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115190322.GA4087422@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqblr4k1t0.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:32:59AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >>   test_config interactive.diffFilter "cat >/dev/null ; echo too-short" &&
> >> 
> >> made the test reliable, with over 2000 --stress repetitions, and that
> >> with only a single "y" on 'git add's stdin.
> >
> > Yeah, I agree the test should be changed. What you wrote above was my
> > first thought, too, but I think "sed 1d" is actually a more realistic
> > test (and is shorter and one fewer process).
> 
> I am not sure what we are aiming for.  Are we making sure the
> command behaves well in the hands of end users, who may write a
> script that consumes only early parts of the input that is needed
> for its use and stops reading, or are we just aiming to claim "all
> our tests pass"?  I was hoping that we would be doing the former,
> and I would understand if the suggestion were "sed 1q" for that
> exact reason.
> 
> IOW, shouldn't we be fixing the part that drives the external
> process, so that the test "passes" even with such a "broken" filter?

The original motivation for this test (and the code that fixes it) was
diff-so-fancy, which read all of the input but didn't have a 1:1 line
correspondence in the output (IIRC it condensed some particular lines,
like rename from/to into a single line).

And I think most sane filters would end up reading all of the content.
Or a misconfiguration would cause them to read nothing at all.

So something like "sed 1d" is more representative of a real filter. If
we want to test SIGPIPE, then the current one that reads _nothing_ is
the most torturous. But "sed 1q" is neither realistic (if that's what
we're going for) nor the hardest thing we can throw at the code (if
that's what we want).

> > I've been tempted to say that we should just ignore SIGPIPE everywhere,
> > and convert even copious-output programs like git-log to just check for
> > errors (they could probably even just check ferror(stdout) for each
> > commit we output, if we didn't want to touch every printf call).
> 
> Yeah, I share that temptation.

Hmm. My recollection was that you were more of a fan of SIGPIPE than I
am. But if you agree, then maybe the time has come for action. :)

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-21 22:41 [PATCH 0/9] built-in add -p: add support for the same config settings as the Perl version Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] built-in add -p: support interactive.diffFilter Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] built-in add -p: handle diff.algorithm Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] terminal: make the code of disable_echo() reusable Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] terminal: accommodate Git for Windows' default terminal Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] built-in add -p: respect the `interactive.singlekey` config setting Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences in interactive.singlekey mode Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences more efficiently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:42 ` [PATCH 9/9] ci: include the built-in `git add -i` in the `linux-gcc` job Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-21 22:53   ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-12-25 11:56     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-22  0:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-25 11:57     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-24 18:23 ` [PATCH 0/9] built-in add -p: add support for the same config settings as the Perl version Junio C Hamano
2019-12-24 18:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-25  8:46     ` Simon Ruderich
2019-12-25 12:09     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-25 12:02   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-25 11:56 ` [PATCH v2 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 1/9] built-in add -p: support interactive.diffFilter Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-07 22:57     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-13  6:47       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 2/9] built-in add -p: handle diff.algorithm Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 3/9] terminal: make the code of disable_echo() reusable Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 4/9] terminal: accommodate Git for Windows' default terminal Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 5/9] terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 6/9] built-in add -p: respect the `interactive.singlekey` config setting Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 7/9] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences in interactive.singlekey mode Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:56   ` [PATCH v2 8/9] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences more efficiently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-25 11:57   ` [PATCH v2 9/9] ci: include the built-in `git add -i` in the `linux-gcc` job Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-12-26 20:48     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-01 22:10       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-26 20:45   ` [PATCH v2 0/9] built-in add -p: add support for the same config settings as the Perl version Junio C Hamano
2020-01-13  8:29   ` [PATCH v3 00/10] " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 01/10] built-in add -i/-p: treat SIGPIPE as EOF Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13 17:04       ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-13 18:33         ` Jeff King
2020-01-15 18:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-15 19:03             ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-01-14 12:47         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-17 14:32         ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-17 18:58           ` Jeff King
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 02/10] built-in add -p: support interactive.diffFilter Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 03/10] built-in add -p: handle diff.algorithm Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 04/10] terminal: make the code of disable_echo() reusable Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 05/10] terminal: accommodate Git for Windows' default terminal Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 06/10] terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 07/10] built-in add -p: respect the `interactive.singlekey` config setting Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 08/10] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences in interactive.singlekey mode Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 09/10] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences more efficiently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-13  8:29     ` [PATCH v3 10/10] ci: include the built-in `git add -i` in the `linux-gcc` job Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43     ` [PATCH v4 00/10] built-in add -p: add support for the same config settings as the Perl version Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 01/10] t3701: adjust difffilter test Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 02/10] built-in add -p: support interactive.diffFilter Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 03/10] built-in add -p: handle diff.algorithm Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 04/10] terminal: make the code of disable_echo() reusable Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 05/10] terminal: accommodate Git for Windows' default terminal Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 06/10] terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 07/10] built-in add -p: respect the `interactive.singlekey` config setting Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 08/10] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences in interactive.singlekey mode Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 09/10] built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences more efficiently Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-01-14 18:43       ` [PATCH v4 10/10] ci: include the built-in `git add -i` in the `linux-gcc` job Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget

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