From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:43:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3b724d8-bb9b-b63b-0105-8c1e22b120be@ramsayjones.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbU4LcRFHh5dM7i+L5DKpxKSrK-mZdYEeScrzVnYZsJmg@mail.gmail.com>
On 24/04/17 23:17, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Ramsay Jones
> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 24/04/17 21:03, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> +
>>> + argv_array_pushf(&cp.env_array, "name=%s", sub->name);
>>> + argv_array_pushf(&cp.env_array, "path=%s", displaypath);
>>> + argv_array_pushf(&cp.env_array, "sm_path=%s", displaypath);
>>>
>>> You mention keeping 'sm_path' in the notes after the commit message. I would
>>> add that part to the commit message, to explain why we have multiple variables
>>> that have the same value. Maybe even a comment in the code:
>>>
>>> /* Keep sm_path for historic reasons, see tests in 091a6eb0fee. */
>>> .. sm_path ..
>>
>> Hmm, you need to be a bit careful with putting 'path' in the
>> environment (if you then export it to sub-processes) on windows
>> (cygwin, MinGW, GfW). See commit 64394e3ae9. I would have liked
>> to remove $path altogether from the 'submodule-foreach api' in
>> that commit, but users and their scripts were already using it
>> (so I couldn't just drop it, without some deprecation period).
>> So long as whatever was being 'eval'-ed in the script didn't
>> export $path, ...
>>
>
> Oh, I misread the comment
>
> # we make $path available to scripts ...
> path=$sm_path
>
> as it was such a casual friendly thing to say in that context.
> So the *real* historic baggage is
> argv_array_pushf(&cp.env_array, "path=%s", displaypath);
> whereas
> argv_array_pushf(&cp.env_array, "sm_path=%s", displaypath);
> is considered the correct way to go.
I have to admit that I didn't actually read the code in this
patch. I just saw the subject line and the ass-backward comment
about $sm_path. ;-)
My intention was simply to warn: 'there be dragons'.
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-24 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 17:05 [GSoC][RFC/PATCH] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-04-19 18:08 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-22 19:58 ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v2] " Prathamesh Chavan
2017-04-24 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24 20:03 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-24 22:11 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-04-24 22:17 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-24 22:43 ` Ramsay Jones [this message]
2017-05-12 11:44 ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v3 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-12 11:44 ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v3 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-15 17:22 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-15 18:34 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-21 12:58 ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-21 12:58 ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-22 20:04 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-23 19:09 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-23 19:36 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-23 20:57 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-23 21:05 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 15:17 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 15:17 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 2/3] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 16:19 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-26 16:33 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 15:17 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 3/3] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 16:14 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-26 16:44 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 21:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-26 22:03 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-27 1:20 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-27 14:06 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-27 21:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-26 16:31 ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value Ramsay Jones
2017-05-26 17:07 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-27 1:10 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-30 21:53 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-30 23:07 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-30 23:29 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-31 0:13 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-31 0:48 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-02 11:24 ` [GSoC][PATCH v6 1/2] " Prathamesh Chavan
2017-06-02 11:24 ` [GSoC][PATCH v6 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-06-03 2:13 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-04 10:32 ` Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-23 19:06 ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Brandon Williams
2017-06-03 0:37 ` [PATCH] submodule foreach: correct $sm_path in nested submodules from a dir Stefan Beller
2017-06-03 14:07 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-04 15:05 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-05 22:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
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