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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert@gmail.com>
Cc: J Wyman <jwyman@microsoft.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] remote.c: fix handling of push:remote_ref
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:23:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228182349.GA1408759@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200228172455.1734888-1-damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 06:24:55PM +0100, Damien Robert wrote:

> To get the meaning of push:remoteref, ref-filter.c calls
> remote_ref_for_branch.
> 
> However remote_ref_for_branch only handles the case of a specified refspec.
> The other cases treated by branch_get_push_1 are the mirror case,
> PUSH_DEFAULT_{NOTHING,MATCHING,CURRENT,UPSTREAM,UNSPECIFIED,SIMPLE}.

Just to back up a minute to the user-visible problem, it's that:

  git config push.default matching
  git for-each-ref --format='%(push)'
  git for-each-ref --format='%(push:remoteref)'

prints a useful tracking ref for the first for-each-ref, but an empty
string for the second. That feature (and remote_ref_for_branch) come
from 9700fae5ee (for-each-ref: let upstream/push report the remote ref
name, 2017-11-07). Author cc'd for guidance.

I wonder if %(upstream:remoteref) has similar problems, but I suppose
not (it doesn't have this implicit config, so we'd always either have a
remote ref or we'd have no upstream at all).

> In all these cases, either there is no push remote, or the remote_ref is
> branch->refname. So we can handle all these cases by returning
> branch->refname, provided that remote is not empty.

In the case of "upstream", the names could be different, couldn't they?

If I do this:

  git init parent
  git -C parent commit --allow-empty -m foo
  
  git clone parent child
  cd child
  git branch --track mybranch origin/master
  git config push.default upstream
  git for-each-ref \
    --format='push=%(push), remoteref=%(push:remoteref)' \
    refs/heads/mybranch

the current code gives no remoteref value, which seems wrong. But with
your patch I'd get "refs/heads/mybranch", which is also wrong.

I think you're right that all of the other cases would always use the
same refname on the remote.

>  remote.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

We'd want some test coverage to make sure this doesn't regress. There
are already some tests covering this feature in t6300. And indeed, your
patch causes them to fail when checking a "simple" push case (but I
think I'd argue the current expected value there is wrong). That should
be expanded to cover the "upstream" case, too, once we figure out how to
get it right.

> diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
> index 593ce297ed..75e42b1e36 100644
> --- a/remote.c
> +++ b/remote.c
> @@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ const char *remote_ref_for_branch(struct branch *branch, int for_push,
>  					*explicit = 1;
>  				return dst;
>  			}
> +			else if (remote) {
> +				if (explicit)
> +					*explicit = 1;
> +				return branch->refname;
> +			}

Saying "*explicit = 1" here seems weird. Isn't the whole point that
these modes _aren't_ explicit?

It looks like our only caller will ignore our return value unless we say
"explicit", though. I have to wonder what the point of that flag is,
versus just returning NULL when we don't have anything to return.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-28 17:24 [PATCH 1/1] remote.c: fix handling of push:remote_ref Damien Robert
2020-02-28 18:23 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-03-01 22:05   ` Damien Robert
2020-03-02 13:32     ` Jeff King
2020-03-03 16:12       ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Damien Robert
2020-03-03 16:12         ` [PATCH v2 1/2] remote: drop "explicit" parameter from remote_ref_for_branch() Damien Robert
2020-03-03 17:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-03 21:11             ` Jeff King
2020-03-03 22:22               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-03 16:12         ` [PATCH v2 2/2] remote.c: fix handling of %(push:remoteref) Damien Robert
2020-03-03 16:29           ` Damien Robert
2020-03-03 18:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-03 18:21           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-03 22:24             ` Damien Robert
2020-03-03 22:48               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-12 16:45           ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Damien Robert
2020-03-25 22:16             ` Damien Robert
2020-03-27 22:08               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-28 22:25                 ` Damien Robert
2020-03-28 13:15             ` Jeff King
2020-03-28 13:31               ` Jeff King
2020-04-16 15:12                 ` Damien Robert
2020-04-06 16:04               ` Damien Robert
2020-04-06 21:46                 ` Jeff King
2020-04-06 17:56             ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/2] %(push) and %(push:remoteref) bug fixes Damien Robert
2020-04-06 17:56               ` [PATCH v6 1/2] remote.c: fix %(push) for triangular workflows Damien Robert
2020-04-06 17:56               ` [PATCH v6 2/2] remote.c: fix handling of %(push:remoteref) Damien Robert
2020-04-16 15:03             ` [PATCH v8 1/1] " Damien Robert
2020-04-16 15:21               ` Damien Robert
2020-09-03 22:01                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-11 21:43                   ` Damien Robert
2020-09-14 22:21                     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-03 16:16       ` [PATCH 1/1] remote.c: fix handling of push:remote_ref Damien Robert
2020-03-02 13:48     ` Jeff King
2020-03-03 16:25       ` Damien Robert

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