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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, random_n0body@icloud.com,
	levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] MacOS: precompose_argv_prefix()
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:31:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210205173156.6ypl2q56r6gzutac@tb-raspi4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7msbxzy.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 02:13:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > Just as the prefix-less variant was idempotent and that was the
> > reason why cmd_diff_files() had its own precompose() even if the
> > incoming argv[] is supposed to be already precomposed because it
> > was processed in another call to precompose() in run_builtin(),
> > this patch keeps these seemingly redundant calls, because it is not
> > meant as a clean-up but as a bugfix for the prefix part.
> >
> > OK. ... Ah, no, the call in run_builtin() is a new thing.  We didn't
> > have it, and the redundant call is what this patch introduced, so
> > we need to be a bit more careful about the analysis here.  It is one
> > thing to say "we leave the existing iffy code and address only a
> > single bug" and do so.  It is entirely different to say so and then
> > do "we introduce an iffy code and address only a single bug".  We
> > need to admit that what we added _is_ iffy but supposed to be safe.
> > Just saying "it is supposed to be safe" without saying why it is
> > iffy is dishonest and does not help future developers who may want
> > to jump in and clean the code.
> >
> > Perhaps
> >
> > 	Now add it into git.c::run_builtin() as well.  Existing
> > 	precompose calls in diff-files.c and others would become
> > 	redundant but because we do not want to make sure that there
> > 	is no way for the control to reach them without passing
> > 	run_builtin(), we'll keep them in place just in case.  The
> > 	calls to precompose() are idempotent so it should not hurt.
> >
> > or something?
>
> FYI, I've tweaked the proposed log message like the following before
> queuing.  I think that would be explicit enough to remind us that we
> may be able to improve the situation fairly easily.
>

Thanks for helping me out.
That gives me some time to look deeper and prepare more test cases
ana a then cleanup on top of this patch (later).


      reply	other threads:[~2021-02-05 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06 11:35 git-bugreport-2021-01-06-1209.txt (git can't deal with special characters) Daniel Troger
2021-01-06 14:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-01-06 16:49   ` Daniel Troger
2021-01-06 21:47     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-01-06 22:21       ` Daniel Troger
2021-01-06 23:07         ` Randall S. Becker
2021-01-07 14:34           ` Philippe Blain
2021-01-07 15:49             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-01-07 16:21               ` Philippe Blain
2021-01-08 19:07                 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-01-24 15:13 ` [PATCH/RFC v1 1/1] git restore -p . and precomposed unicode tboegi
2021-01-24 19:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-25 16:53     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2021-01-29 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] MacOS: precompose_argv_prefix() tboegi
2021-01-29 23:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-31  0:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-31  9:50     ` Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?=
2021-02-02 15:11 ` [PATCH v3 " tboegi
2021-02-02 17:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-03 16:28 ` [PATCH v4 " tboegi
2021-02-03 19:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-03 22:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-05 17:31       ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]

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