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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/8 v2] git_remote_helpers: fix input when running under Python 3
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:04:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy5fu14sy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130115215412.GX4574@serenity.lan> (John Keeping's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:54:12 +0000")

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

>> That really feels wrong.  Displaying is a separate issue and it is
>> the _right_ thing to punt the problem at the lower-level machinery
>> level.
>
> But the display will require decoding the ref name to a Unicode string,
> which depends on the encoding of the underlying ref name, so it feels
> like it should be decoded where it's read (see [1]).

If you botch the decoding in a way you cannot recover the original
byte string, you cannot create a ref whose name is the original byte
string, no?  Keeping the original byte string internally (this
includes where you use it to create new refs or update existing
refs), and attempting to convert it to Unicode when you choose to
show that string as a part of a message to the user (and falling
back to replacing some bytes to '?' if you cannot, but do so only in
the message), you won't have that problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-15 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-12 19:23 [PATCH 0/8] Initial support for Python 3 John Keeping
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 1/8] git_remote_helpers: Allow building with " John Keeping
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 2/8] git_remote_helpers: fix input when running under " John Keeping
2013-01-13  3:26   ` Michael Haggerty
2013-01-13 16:17     ` John Keeping
2013-01-14  4:48       ` Michael Haggerty
2013-01-14  9:47         ` John Keeping
2013-01-15 19:48           ` [RFC/PATCH 2/8 v2] " John Keeping
2013-01-15 20:51             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-15 21:54               ` John Keeping
2013-01-15 22:04                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-01-15 22:40                   ` [RFC/PATCH 2/8 v3] " John Keeping
2013-01-16  0:03                     ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-16  9:45                       ` John Keeping
2013-01-17  0:29                         ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 3/8] git_remote_helpers: Force rebuild if python version changes John Keeping
2013-01-12 23:30   ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-13 16:26     ` John Keeping
2013-01-13 17:14       ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-13 17:52         ` John Keeping
2013-01-15 22:58           ` John Keeping
2013-01-17  0:27             ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 4/8] git_remote_helpers: Use 2to3 if building with Python 3 John Keeping
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 5/8] svn-fe: allow svnrdump_sim.py to run " John Keeping
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 6/8] git-remote-testpy: hash bytes explicitly John Keeping
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 7/8] git-remote-testpy: don't do unbuffered text I/O John Keeping
2013-01-12 19:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] git-remote-testpy: call print as a function John Keeping
2013-01-12 23:43 ` [PATCH 0/8] Initial support for Python 3 Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-13  0:41   ` John Keeping
2013-01-13 12:34     ` John Keeping
2013-01-13 16:40     ` Pete Wyckoff
2013-01-13 17:35       ` John Keeping
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Initial Python 3 support John Keeping
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] git_remote_helpers: allow building with Python 3 John Keeping
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] git_remote_helpers: fix input when running under " John Keeping
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] git_remote_helpers: force rebuild if python version changes John Keeping
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] git_remote_helpers: use 2to3 if building with Python 3 John Keeping
2013-01-18  5:15   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-01-18 10:32     ` John Keeping
2013-01-19  7:52       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] svn-fe: allow svnrdump_sim.py to run " John Keeping
2013-01-17 18:53 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] git-remote-testpy: hash bytes explicitly John Keeping
2013-01-17 20:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-17 20:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-17 21:00     ` John Keeping
2013-01-17 21:05       ` John Keeping
2013-01-17 22:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-17 22:30         ` John Keeping
2013-01-17 22:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-17 18:54 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] git-remote-testpy: don't do unbuffered text I/O John Keeping
2013-01-18  3:50   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-01-17 18:54 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] git-remote-testpy: call print as a function John Keeping
2013-01-18  3:48   ` Sverre Rabbelier

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