git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:00:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOLTT8SLbpDV6_hnLqeimMrhLrNKmAS2rTbVwdjhDLuW_jCW_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQcyJJnuOq9wtJjgEi7OgO39wBf+hHkVxaQ4z-RehvgNA@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> 于2021年2月26日周五 上午1:57写道:
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:19 AM ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Usually we can only use `format-patch -v<n>` to generate integral
> > version numbers patches, but if we can provide `format-patch` with
> > non-integer versions numbers of patches, this may help us to send patches
> > such as "v1.1" versions sometimes.
>
> On the Git project itself, fractional or non-numeric re-roll "numbers"
> are not necessarily encouraged[1], so this feature may not be
> particularly useful here, though perhaps some other project might
> benefit from it(?). Usually, you would want to justify why the change
> is desirable. Denton did give a bit of justification in his
> proposal[2] for this feature, so perhaps update this commit message by
> copying some of what he wrote as justification.
>
OK, I will remember it.
> [1]: I think I've only seen Denton send fractional re-rolls; other
> people sometimes send a periodic "fixup!" patch, but both approaches
> place extra burden on the project maintainer than merely re-rolling
> the entire series with a new integer re-roll count.
>
> [2]: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/882
>
> > Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
> > @@ -215,12 +215,12 @@ populated with placeholder text.
> >  -v <n>::
> >  --reroll-count=<n>::
> > -       Mark the series as the <n>-th iteration of the topic. The
> > +       Mark the series as the specified version of the topic. The
> >         output filenames have `v<n>` prepended to them, and the
> >         subject prefix ("PATCH" by default, but configurable via the
> >         `--subject-prefix` option) has ` v<n>` appended to it.  E.g.
> > -       `--reroll-count=4` may produce `v4-0001-add-makefile.patch`
> > -       file that has "Subject: [PATCH v4 1/20] Add makefile" in it.
> > +       `--reroll-count 4.4` may produce `v4.4-0001-add-makefile.patch`
> > +       file that has "Subject: [PATCH v4.4 1/20] Add makefile" in it.
>
> I'm not sure we want to encourage the use of fractional re-roll counts
> by using it in an example like this. It would probably be better to
> leave the example as-is. If you really want people to know that
> fractional re-roll counts are supported, perhaps add separate sentence
> saying that they are.
Yes, but the original description `<n>-th iteration` may imply that the version
number is an integer. Is there any good way to solve it?
>
> > diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
> > @@ -1662,13 +1662,13 @@ static void print_bases(struct base_tree_info *bases, FILE *file)
> > -static const char *diff_title(struct strbuf *sb, int reroll_count,
> > +static const char *diff_title(struct strbuf *sb, const char *reroll_count,
> >                        const char *generic, const char *rerolled)
> >  {
> > -       if (reroll_count <= 0)
> > +       if (!reroll_count)
> >                 strbuf_addstr(sb, generic);
> >         else /* RFC may be v0, so allow -v1 to diff against v0 */
> > -               strbuf_addf(sb, rerolled, reroll_count - 1);
> > +               strbuf_addf(sb, rerolled, "last version");
> >         return sb->buf;
> >  }
>
> There are a couple problems here (at least). First, the string "last
> version" should be localizable, `_("last version")`. Second, in
> Denton's proposal[2], he suggested using the string "last version"
> _only_ if the re-roll count is not an integer. What you have here
> applies "last version" unconditionally when -v is used so that the
> outcome is _always_ "Range-diff since last version". If that's what
> you intend to do, there's no reason to do any sort of interpolation
> using the template "Range-diff since %". What Denton had in mind was
> this (using pseudo-code):
>
>     if re-roll count not specified:
>         message = "Range-diff"
>     else if re-roll count is integer:
>         message = "Range-diff since v%d", re-roll
>     else:
>         message = "Range-diff since v%s", re-roll
>
> However, there isn't a good reason to favor "Range-diff since last
> version" over the simpler generic message "Range-diff". So, the above
> should be collapsed to:interpolation
>
>     if re-roll count is specified and integer:
>         message = "Range-diff since v%d", re-roll
>     else:
>         message = "Range-diff"
>
You mean using "Range-diff since %" may not be as
 good as" Range-diff" without sorting. I agree with you.
> > @@ -2080,7 +2080,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> > -                                            _("Interdiff against v%d:"));
> > +                                            _("Interdiff against %s:"));
> > @@ -2099,7 +2099,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> > -                                            _("Range-diff against v%d:"));
> > +                                            _("Range-diff against %s:"));
>
> If you follow my recommendation above using the simplified
> conditional, then you don't need to drop the "v" since you won't be
> saying "last version".

Your suggestion is very good and easy to implement, but I may have
made some changes in Junio suggestion later, that is, I used the
 `previous_count` method to provide it to `diff_title()`. I will explain
my thoughts and problems in my reply to Junio. You'll see it later.
Thank you for your help.

--
ZheNing Hu

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-27  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-25 16:15 [PATCH] format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-02-25 17:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-02-27  7:00   ` ZheNing Hu [this message]
2021-02-25 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-27  7:30   ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-17 11:46   ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-03-17 19:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-01  8:40 ` [PATCH v2] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-03  3:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-03  9:02   ` Denton Liu
2021-03-04  0:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-04  2:08       ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-04  3:27         ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-04  8:41           ` Denton Liu
2021-03-04 12:12   ` [PATCH v3] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-04 12:49     ` Denton Liu
2021-03-05  4:56       ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-05  7:10     ` [PATCH v4] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 23:41       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-16  5:48         ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-16  6:15           ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-17 17:27             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-16  8:25       ` [PATCH v5] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-16 23:36         ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-17  2:05           ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-18  6:00         ` [PATCH v6] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-19  6:00           ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-19  7:25             ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-19 11:21           ` [PATCH v7] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-19 16:01             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20  3:08               ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-19 17:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20  3:04               ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-20 14:56             ` [PATCH v8] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-20 19:55               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21  2:45                 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-21  4:05               ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-21  5:45                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21  5:54                   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-24  8:46                     ` Denton Liu
2021-03-21  7:22                 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-21  9:00               ` [PATCH v9] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-23  5:31                 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-23  6:42                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-23  8:53                   ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23  9:16                     ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 11:12                 ` [PATCH v10] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-24  3:58                   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-24  4:43                     ` ZheNing Hu

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAOLTT8SLbpDV6_hnLqeimMrhLrNKmAS2rTbVwdjhDLuW_jCW_w@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=adlternative@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitgitgadget@gmail.com \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=liu.denton@gmail.com \
    --cc=sunshine@sunshineco.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).