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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Fabian Stelzer" <fs@gigacodes.de>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] make test "linting" more comprehensive
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 14:31:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yx4pg2t6JXR+lsd4@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRJVn-mbA6-jOmNfDJtK_nX4ZTw+OcNShvvz8zcQYbCHQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 03:01:41AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > I wonder if color output for "# chainlint" and "?!" annotations would
> > help, too. It looks like that may be tricky, though, because the
> > annotations re-parsed internally in some cases.
> 
> I had the exact same thought about coloring the "# chainlint:" lines
> and "?!FOO?!" annotations, and how helpful that could be to anyone
> (not just newcomers). Aside from not having much free time these days,
> a big reason I didn't tackle it was because doing so properly probably
> means relying upon some third-party Perl module, and I intentionally
> wanted to keep the linter independent of add-on modules. Even without
> a "coloring" module of some sort, if Perl had a standard `curses`
> module (which it doesn't), then it would have been easy enough to ask
> `curses` for the proper color codes and apply them as needed. I'm
> old-school, so it doesn't appeal to me, but an alternative would be to
> assume it's safe to use ANSI color codes, but even that may have to be
> done carefully (i.e. checking TERM and accepting only some whitelisted
> entries, and worrying about about Windows consoles).

We're pretty happy to just use ANSI in the rest of Git, but there is a
complication on Windows. See compat/winansi.c where we decode those
internally into SetConsoleTextAttribute() calls.

I think we can live with it as-is for now and see how people react. If
lots of people are getting confused by the output, then that motivates
finding a solution. If not, then it's probably not worth the time.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-11 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-01  0:29 [PATCH 00/18] make test "linting" more comprehensive Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 01/18] t: add skeleton chainlint.pl Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01 12:27   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-02 18:53     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 02/18] chainlint.pl: add POSIX shell lexical analyzer Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01 12:32   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-03  6:00     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 03/18] chainlint.pl: add POSIX shell parser Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 04/18] chainlint.pl: add parser to validate tests Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 05/18] chainlint.pl: add parser to identify test definitions Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 06/18] chainlint.pl: validate test scripts in parallel Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01 12:36   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-03  7:51     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-06 22:35   ` Eric Wong
2022-09-06 22:52     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-06 23:26       ` Jeff King
2022-11-21  4:02         ` Eric Sunshine
2022-11-21 13:28           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-21 14:07             ` Eric Sunshine
2022-11-21 14:18               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-21 14:48                 ` Eric Sunshine
2022-11-21 18:04           ` Jeff King
2022-11-21 18:47             ` Eric Sunshine
2022-11-21 18:50               ` Eric Sunshine
2022-11-21 18:52               ` Jeff King
2022-11-21 19:00                 ` Eric Sunshine
2022-11-21 19:28                   ` Jeff King
2022-11-22  0:11                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 07/18] chainlint.pl: don't require `return|exit|continue` to end with `&&` Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 08/18] t/Makefile: apply chainlint.pl to existing self-tests Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 09/18] chainlint.pl: don't require `&` background command to end with `&&` Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 10/18] chainlint.pl: don't flag broken &&-chain if `$?` handled explicitly Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 11/18] chainlint.pl: don't flag broken &&-chain if failure indicated explicitly Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 12/18] chainlint.pl: complain about loops lacking explicit failure handling Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 13/18] chainlint.pl: allow `|| echo` to signal failure upstream of a pipe Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 14/18] t/chainlint: add more chainlint.pl self-tests Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 15/18] test-lib: retire "lint harder" optimization hack Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 16/18] test-lib: replace chainlint.sed with chainlint.pl Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-03  5:07   ` Elijah Newren
2022-09-03  5:24     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 17/18] t/Makefile: teach `make test` and `make prove` to run chainlint.pl Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 18/18] t: retire unused chainlint.sed Eric Sunshine via GitGitGadget
2022-09-02 12:42   ` several messages Johannes Schindelin
2022-09-02 18:16     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-02 18:34       ` Jeff King
2022-09-02 18:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-11  5:28 ` [PATCH 00/18] make test "linting" more comprehensive Jeff King
2022-09-11  7:01   ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-11 18:31     ` Jeff King [this message]
2022-09-12 23:17       ` Eric Sunshine
2022-09-13  0:04         ` Jeff King

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