From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: add option for absolute or relative path formatting Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:03:15 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20200911000315.GL241078@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20200910151935.GA5265@szeder.dev> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2349 bytes --] On 2020-09-10 at 15:19:35, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > Well, on first sight it seems nice that scripts have to specify > '--path-format=absolute' only once when querying multiple paths at > once, though on second thought no prudent script would query multiple > paths at once, because they might contain newlines. We do that in Git LFS at the cost of not handling paths with newlines because calling out to Git multiple times is expensive, very especially on Windows. Of course, Windows doesn't allow newlines in paths, but it seems silly to have two different code paths for the same thing, especially on top of the different paths we have for versions of Git with and without worktrees (and therefore --git-common-dir). If you're writing a script, you're not expecting great performance (or you wouldn't be writing shell), so it's less of a problem and you can actually afford the cost of being a little more correct. I think if we wanted to prudently handle paths with newlines, we'd want to add a -z option to rev-parse (think about the case in shell where the path ends with a trailing newline). I may get around to that at some point, but anyone is welcome to pick it up before me. > Yeah, I think I found trouble that way, too. I wonder whether > '--path-format=relative' is really worth having, though. Clearly > there's a need for absolute paths, because getting relative paths > causes difficulties for some scripts; I described one such use case in > a2f5a87626 (rev-parse: add '--absolute-git-dir' option, 2017-02-03), > and you just ran into another with Git LFS. However, is there really > a use case that requires relative paths, because an absolute path > would cause similar difficulties? I couldn't come with any. The only case I can come up with is possibly wanting to know if a path is within another path, or if it's outside, and doing that with relative paths may be easier. > So perhaps it would be sufficient to introduce only > '--path-format=absolute' (or equivalent) for now, and add a relative > path variant only when there will be an actual compelling reason to do > so. And that would save you from the pain of addressing these bugs > shown above. I'll consider it when I do my reroll, which will probably be this weekend. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 263 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-11 0:03 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2020-09-08 18:50 brian m. carlson 2020-09-09 3:23 ` Johannes Schindelin 2020-09-09 22:31 ` brian m. carlson 2020-09-09 14:51 ` SZEDER Gábor 2020-09-09 22:23 ` brian m. carlson 2020-09-10 15:19 ` SZEDER Gábor 2020-09-11 0:03 ` brian m. carlson [this message] 2020-11-04 22:16 ` Jonathan Nieder 2020-11-05 3:11 ` brian m. carlson 2020-11-06 0:51 ` Jonathan Nieder 2020-11-06 1:57 ` brian m. carlson
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