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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Modify fetch-pack to no longer die on error?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:41:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200725214118.GA4508@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7dusjyos.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 04:11:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
> 
> > I think the best way for easy authorship and review is to convert each
> > possibly-dying function into a function that either returns a
> > possibly-null error string or returns success/failure and writes the
> > error string into an "out" parameter.
> 
> Ugly.
> 
> Rather, if we were to pass an extra parameter through the entire
> callchain, I'd rather see that parameter to be what to do when we
> see an error.  Depending on that, the callee can die(), return
> error(), or silently return -1, or do something else.

Agreed. I had a proposal a while ago to pass a "struct error_context"
which was basically a function pointer and any accompanying data. That
lets the caller instruct us to die(), call error(), stuff the error in a
strbuf owned by the caller, and so on.

I think it was this one:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20160927191955.mympqgylrxhkp24n@sigill.intra.peff.net/

I still think it's a good idea, but the hard part is lib-ifying all of
the functions that call die() to instead return an error up the stack
(and handle cleanup, etc). Which is why I never really pushed it
further. But if we're going to be lib-ifying such calls anyway, I think
it's nice to do this flexible thing (from their perspective it's no more
work to trigger the callback than it is to call error() and return).

That said, I do think for this particular case, your "just run it in a
sub-process" suggestion may be simpler and more robust.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-25 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-24 22:38 [RFC PATCH] Modify fetch-pack to no longer die on error? Jonathan Tan
2020-07-24 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-24 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-25 21:41   ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-07-25 23:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-27 17:11       ` Jeff King
2020-07-28 19:23       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-07-28 20:08         ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 18:53           ` Jonathan Tan
2020-07-29 19:29             ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 19:02           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 22:55             ` Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] Lazy fetch with subprocess Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] fetch-pack: allow NULL negotiator->add_tip Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05 19:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 20:53       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] fetch-pack: allow NULL negotiator->known_common Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05 20:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-05 22:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 20:59         ` Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] negotiator/null: add null fetch negotiator Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] fetch: --stdin Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05 20:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 21:10       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-08-07 21:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 21:10       ` Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] fetch: submodule config Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] fetch: only populate existing_refs if needed Jonathan Tan
2020-08-05  1:20   ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] promisor-remote: use subprocess to fetch Jonathan Tan
2020-08-11 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Lazy fetch with subprocess Jonathan Tan
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] negotiator/null: add null fetch negotiator Jonathan Tan
2020-08-12 12:55     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-12 16:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-12 17:29         ` Jonathan Tan
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] fetch: allow refspecs specified through stdin Jonathan Tan
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] fetch: avoid reading submodule config until needed Jonathan Tan
2020-08-12 17:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] fetch: only populate existing_refs if needed Jonathan Tan
2020-08-12 18:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] fetch-pack: do not lazy-fetch during ref iteration Jonathan Tan
2020-08-12 18:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] promisor-remote: lazy-fetch objects in subprocess Jonathan Tan
2020-08-12 18:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 22:52   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] fetch-pack: remove no_dependents code Jonathan Tan
2020-08-12 12:51   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Lazy fetch with subprocess Derrick Stolee
2020-08-18  4:01 ` [PATCH v3 " Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 1/7] negotiator/noop: add noop fetch negotiator Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 2/7] fetch: allow refspecs specified through stdin Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 3/7] fetch: avoid reading submodule config until needed Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 4/7] fetch: only populate existing_refs if needed Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 5/7] fetch-pack: do not lazy-fetch during ref iteration Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 6/7] promisor-remote: lazy-fetch objects in subprocess Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18  4:01   ` [PATCH v3 7/7] fetch-pack: remove no_dependents code Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18 19:56   ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Lazy fetch with subprocess Junio C Hamano
2020-08-18 22:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-18 23:36       ` [PATCH] fixup! promisor-remote: lazy-fetch objects in subprocess Jonathan Tan
2020-08-18 23:57         ` Junio C Hamano

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