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From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] hooks: allow input from stdin for commit-related hooks
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:23:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGHpTBKHmdjqrz1ABdGUUz7AwcixU_VBy1DQzybpFizqVo8C7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSN=-7KWgDcXM8po44PEKi27U6mJEEL0mj_wrTJBUf=WA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:23 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 3:57 PM Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let hooks receive user input if applicable.
> > [...]
> > This allows for example prompting the user to choose an issue
> > in prepare-commit-msg, and add "Fixes #123" to the commit message.
> >
> > Another possible use-case is running sanity test on pre-commit,
> > and having a prompt like "This and that issue were found in your
> > changes. Are you sure you want to commit? [Y/N]".
>
> These use-cases really help readers understand the motivation for this
> change. Good.
>
> > Allow stdin only for commit-related hooks. Some of the other
> > hooks pass their own input to the hook, so don't change them.
> >
> > Note: If pre-commit reads from stdin, and git commit is executed
> > with -F - (read message from stdin), the message is not read
> > correctly. This is fixed in the follow-up commit.
>
> Rather than making such a fundamental change and having to deal with
> the fallout by introducing complexity to handle various special-cases
> which pop up now and in the future, I wonder if it makes more sense to
> instead just update documentation to tell hook authors to read
> explicitly from the console rather than expecting stdin to be
> available (since stdin may already be consumed for other purposes when
> dealing with hooks or commands which invoke the hooks).

On the first revision I had several links in the commit message to
users who solved it this way. This solution however is not optimal.
I have a prepare-commit-msg hook that requires user interaction for
choosing an issue. This hook must work from the terminal and also
from GUI applications like IDE.

Currently the hook always pops a GUI window, but when using it
from the terminal this is inconvenient (and when running over
remote SSH without X forwarding it can't work), so I'd like it to be
usable also from the terminal.

To achieve that, I created 2 classes - one for terminal and one
for GUI, and trying to choose the correct class by checking if
stdin is a tty. The condition looks like this (Ruby):
client = STDIN.tty? ? Terminal.new : GUI.new

At this point I was surprised to discover that Git closes stdin,
so the condition is never satisfied, and I always end up with GUI.

As I mentioned, I need it to work also when executed from
GUI applications, so just reading from the console will not work
in my case. I tried other ways to detect "running from terminal"
without the tty condition, but couldn't. The environment variables
are identical when running in a GUI terminal and in the IDE.

Can you suggest an alternative way to determine if I can accept user
input from the console or not?

- Orgad

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-20  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-17 15:02 [PATCH] hooks: allow input from stdin Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-11-17 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-19 15:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 15:56   ` [PATCH v3] hooks: allow input from stdin for commit-related hooks Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 19:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-19 20:41       ` Orgad Shaneh
2020-11-19 20:56     ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 20:56       ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 21:23         ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-19 21:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-20  5:23           ` Orgad Shaneh [this message]
2020-11-20  6:38             ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-20  6:48               ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-20  7:16                 ` Orgad Shaneh
2020-11-20 18:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-20 10:59             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-20 12:34               ` Orgad Shaneh
2020-11-19 20:56       ` [PATCH v4 2/2] commit: fix stdin conflict between message and hook Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-12-09 20:06       ` [PATCH v5 0/2] hooks: allow input from stdin for commit-related hooks Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-12-09 20:06         ` [PATCH v5 1/2] hooks: lay foundations for passing stdin to hooks Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-12-09 20:06         ` [PATCH v5 2/2] hooks: allow input from stdin for commit-related hooks Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget
2020-12-09 22:37           ` Junio C Hamano

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