From: "Miriam R." <mirucam@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] Finish converting git bisect to C part 2
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:56:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN7CjDBSn1FoTFEeqEaGJuSaiUAvjoWZHd6GkmOO5UW8p9ho_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2009232316570.5061@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
Hi Johannes,
El mié., 23 sept. 2020 a las 23:23, Johannes Schindelin
(<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>) escribió:
>
> Hi Miriam,
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Miriam R. wrote:
> >
> > > Applying some of your suggestions related to removing some 'eval' in
> > > git-bisect shell script, a bug has appeared. It seems it is related to
> > > a previous code merged before my internship.
> >
> > Now you got me curious: what bug did you see?
>
> I found your fork and ran the test, and this is the first symptom:
>
> -- snip --
> [...]
> ++ git bisect skip
> Bisecting: 1 revision left to test after this (roughly 1 step)
> [32a594a3fdac2d57cf6d02987e30eec68511498c] Add <4: Ciao for now> into <hello>.
> ++ git bisect good
> ++ grep '3082e11d3a0f2edca194c8ce1eb802256e38e75e is the first bad commit' my_bisect_log.txt
> 3082e11d3a0f2edca194c8ce1eb802256e38e75e is the first bad commit
> ++ git bisect log
> ++ git bisect reset
> Previous HEAD position was 32a594a Add <4: Ciao for now> into <hello>.
> Switched to branch 'other'
> ok 22 - bisect skip: add line and then a new test
>
> expecting success of 6030.23 'bisect skip and bisect replay':
> git bisect replay log_to_replay.txt > my_bisect_log.txt &&
> grep "$HASH5 is the first bad commit" my_bisect_log.txt &&
> git bisect reset
>
> ++ git bisect replay log_to_replay.txt
> error: update_ref failed for ref 'refs/bisect/bad': cannot update ref 'refs/bisect/bad': trying to write ref 'refs/bisect/bad' with nonexistent object 10006d020000000068986d020000000054f65f00
> error: last command exited with $?=1
> not ok 23 - bisect skip and bisect replay
> #
> # git bisect replay log_to_replay.txt > my_bisect_log.txt &&
> # grep "$HASH5 is the first bad commit" my_bisect_log.txt &&
> # git bisect reset
> -- snap --
>
> So I dug a little bit further (and applied Christian's patch in the
> meantime), and it turns out that the `eval` has nothing to do with what I
> originally thought it would be required for: I thought that it wanted to
> prevent `exit` calls from actually exiting the script.
>
> Instead, those `eval` calls are required because the arguments are
> provided in quoted form. For example, during the execution of t6030.68,
> the `eval` would expand the call
>
> eval "git bisect--helper --bisect-start $rev $tail"
>
> to
>
> git bisect--helper --bisect-start '--term-old' 'term2' '--term-new' 'term1'
>
> Therefore, the `eval` really needs to stay in place (also the other `eval`
> I had originally suggested to remove, for the same reason).
Ok, I will recover your other suggestions too.
>
> I would still recommend appending `|| exit`, even if it just so happens
> that we will eventually abort when the `bisect--helper` command failed
> anyway, because the next command will then fail, and abort. But it's
> cleaner to abort already when this invocation failed rather than relying
> on that side effect.
Aha.Ok
Best,
Miriam
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-31 10:50 [PATCH v7 00/13] Finish converting git bisect to C part 2 Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 01/13] bisect--helper: BUG() in cmd_*() on invalid subcommand Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 02/13] bisect--helper: use '-res' in 'cmd_bisect__helper' return Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 03/13] bisect--helper: introduce new `write_in_file()` function Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 04/13] bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_autostart` shell function in C Miriam Rubio
2020-09-03 5:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 05/13] bisect: call 'clear_commit_marks_all()' in 'bisect_next_all()' Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 06/13] bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_next` and `bisect_auto_next` shell functions in C Miriam Rubio
2020-09-03 9:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 07/13] bisect--helper: finish porting `bisect_start()` to C Miriam Rubio
2020-09-03 9:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 08/13] bisect--helper: retire `--bisect-clean-state` subcommand Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 09/13] bisect--helper: retire `--next-all` subcommand Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 10/13] bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_state` & `bisect_head` shell functions in C Miriam Rubio
2020-09-03 12:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 11/13] bisect--helper: retire `--check-expected-revs` subcommand Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 12/13] bisect--helper: retire `--write-terms` subcommand Miriam Rubio
2020-08-31 10:50 ` [PATCH v7 13/13] bisect--helper: retire `--bisect-autostart` subcommand Miriam Rubio
2020-09-03 12:04 ` [PATCH v7 00/13] Finish converting git bisect to C part 2 Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-23 7:26 ` Miriam R.
2020-09-23 14:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-23 21:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-24 5:33 ` Christian Couder
2020-09-24 7:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-24 10:46 ` Christian Couder
2020-09-24 12:53 ` Miriam R.
2020-09-24 12:56 ` Miriam R. [this message]
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