[PATCH 0/4] WIP/POC check isatty(2)-protected progress lines

["SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 10:02:56PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> It turned out that progress
> counters can be checked easily and transparently in case of progress
> lines that are shown in the tests, i.e. that are shown even when
> stderr is not a terminal or are forced with '--progress'.  (In other
> cases it's still fairly easy but not quite transparent, as I think we
> need changes to the progress API; more on that later in a separate
> series.)

So, the first patch in this WIP/POC series is my attempt at checking
even those progress counters that are not shown in our test suite,
either because stderr is not a terminal or because of an explicit
'--no-progress' option.  There are no usable commit messages yet, I
just wanted to see whether it's possible to check all progress lines
and whether it uncovers any more bugs; and the answer is yes to both.

Anyway, the basic idea is that instead of checking isatty(2) in the
caller, let's perform that check in start_progress() and let callers
override it through an extra function parameter (e.g. when
'--(no-)progress', '-v' or '--quiet' was given).  This way
start_progress() will always be called and it would then return NULL
if the progress line should not be shown.  Or, if
GIT_TEST_CHECK_PROGRESS=1, then it would return a valid non-NULL
progress instance even when the progress line should not be shown, but
with the new 'progress->hidden' flag set, so subsequent
display_progress() and stop_progress() calls won't print anything but
will be able to perform all the checks and trigger BUG() if one is
violated.

However, after Ævar pointed out upthread that progress also generates
trace2 regions, I think that it would be better if start_progress()
always returned a valid progress instance, even without
GIT_TEST_CHECK_PROGRESS but with 'progress->hidden' set as necessary,
because that way we would always get that trace2 output, even with
'--no-progress' or 'git cmd 2>log'.

The first patch also converts a good couple of progress lines to this
new approach, and the subsequent patches fix most of the uncovered
buggy progress lines.


SZEDER Gábor (4):
  WIP progress, isatty(2), hidden progress lnies for
    GIT_TEST_CHECK_PROGRESS
  blame: fix progress total with line ranges
  read-cache: avoid overlapping progress lines
  preload-index: fix "Refreshing index" progress line

 builtin/blame.c          |  8 ++++----
 builtin/fsck.c           | 10 +++-------
 builtin/index-pack.c     | 18 +++++++++---------
 builtin/log.c            |  4 ++--
 builtin/prune.c          |  5 +----
 builtin/unpack-objects.c |  6 +++---
 preload-index.c          | 10 +++++-----
 progress.c               | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 progress.h               |  6 ++++--
 read-cache.c             |  9 +++++----
 10 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

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