From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv"
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:49:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZvmSRz4oAzSHZgG@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211122.86o86cxcnu.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 07:33:10PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 22 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> >
> >> I'm on the fence on how important it is to do these cleanups. IMHO they
> >> are half of what really sells the change in the first place (since the
> >> other bug can pretty easily be fixed without it).
> >
> > Yes. I actually think these have much better value for their
> > complexity, compared to the other "half" of the topic ;-)
> >
> >> But maybe it is piling too much onto what is already a pretty big
> >> change. The cleanups could be done individually later.
> >
> > I am OK with that, too. But I do agree that the series is too big
> > to sit in front of a fix for a bug, for which a much simpler and
> > focused approach has already been discussed, to block it.
>
> I'm happy to re-roll this on top of the more narrow fix. FWIW the bug's
> there since at least v2.30.0 (just tested that, probably much older), so
> in that sense there's no urgency either way.
I suspect it has been a problem since 43b0190224 (pager: lose a separate
argv[], 2016-02-16) in v2.7.3. So yeah, definitely not urgent, but I do
think we can get out a 2-line minimal fix to start with.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 19:40 [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-21 18:37 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 4:35 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 14:52 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-23 16:40 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-24 1:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-24 15:51 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] archive-tar: use our own cmd.buf in error message Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:02 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 20:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:10 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 21:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 21:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:32 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 18:47 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 17:52 ` [PATCH 0/5] run-command API: get rid of "argv" Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 18:49 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-11-22 18:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] run-command API: get rid of "argv" and "env" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] worktree: remove redundant NULL-ing of "cp.argv Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 15:26 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-24 6:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 6:12 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-24 5:44 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] run-command tests: " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-24 1:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] run-command API users: use strvec_push(), " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-23 12:06 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] run-command API: get rid of "argv" and "env" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] worktree: stop being overly intimate with run_command() internals Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-26 9:48 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] upload-archive: use regular "struct child_process" pattern Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushv(), not argv assignment Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] run-command tests: " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv construction Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] run-command API users: use strvec_push(), " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] run-command API: remove "argv" member, always use "args" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] difftool: use "env_array" to simplify memory management Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-25 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] run-command API: remove "env" member, always use "env_array" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH v2] pager: fix crash when pager program doesn't exist Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 16:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:46 ` Enzo Matsumiya
2021-11-22 17:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 17:41 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 18:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:26 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:37 ` Jeff King
2021-11-22 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-22 18:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-22 16:30 ` Jeff King
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