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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE <nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:10:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d80d1b97-b0c0-148b-afb7-f5210366e463@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfsedywli.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Junio

On 21/11/2022 00:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:
>
>> Instead of replacing with "..", replace with the empty string,
>> implied by passing NULL, and adjust the padding length calculation.
> What's the point of saying "implied by passing NULL" here?  Is it an
> excuse for passing NULL when passing "" would have sufficed and been
> more natural, or something?  

Passing the empty string was my first approach, however Taylor had
commented "why pass the empty string, when NULL will do", hence I
checked, and yes, we can pass NULL, so I followed that guidance on the
re-roll.

> Also, it is unclear to whom you are
> passing the NULL.  I think that it is sufficient that you said
> "replace with the empty string" there.

I could drop the commit message comment, and keep the NULL being passed
tostrbuf_utf8_replace to indicate the empty string, though that may
create the same reviewer question that Taylor had.
>
>> Extend the existing tests for these pretty formats to include
>> `Trunc` and Ltrunc` options matching the `trunc` and `ltrunc`
>> tests.
> A more important thing to say is that we add Trunc and Ltrunc, than
> we test for these new features ;-)

That would be to swap the paragraphs about, yes?
>
> You may also want to explain why there is no matching Mtrunc added.

Can do, though it felt obvious that the original mtrunc ellipsis would
be necessary for the mid-case.
>
> I also have another comment on the design.
>
> Imagine there are series of wide characters, each occupying two
> display columns, and you give 6 display columns to truncate such a
> string into.  "trunc" would give you "[][].." (where [] denotes one
> such wide letter that occupies two display columns), and "Trunc"
> would give you "[][][]".  Now if you give only 5 display columns,
> to fill instead of 6, what should happen?

My reading of the existing code for ltrunc/mtrunc/trunc was that all
these padding conditions were already covered. It was simply a matter of
column counting.
>
> I do not recall how ".."-stuffed truncation works in this case but
> it should notice that it cannot stuff 3 wide letters and give you
> "[][].".  The current code may be already buggy, but at least at the
> design level, it is fairly clear what the feature _should_ do.
>
> As a design question, what should "Trunc" do in such a case now?  I
> do not think we can still call it "hard truncate" if the feature
> gives "[][]" (i.e. fill only 4 display columns, resulting in a
> string that is not wide enough) or "[][][]" (i.e. exceed 5 columns
> that are given), but of course chomping a letter in the middle is
> not acceptable behaviour, so ...
The design had already covered those cases. The author already had those
thoughts

--

Philip

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-21 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-30 18:56 [PATCH 0/1] extend the truncating pretty formats Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 18:56 ` [PATCH 1/1] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 19:23   ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-30 22:01     ` Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 23:42       ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-30 21:41 ` [PATCH 0/1] extend the truncating pretty formats Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 22:57 ` [PATCH v2 " Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 22:57   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 23:05     ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-02  0:45       ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-02 12:08         ` [PATCH v3] " Philip Oakley
2022-11-12 14:36           ` [PATCH v4] " Philip Oakley
2022-11-21  0:34             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-21 18:10               ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2022-11-22  0:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-23 14:26                   ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-25  7:11                     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-26 14:32                       ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-26 22:44                         ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-26 23:19                         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-28 13:39                           ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-29  0:18                             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-07  0:24                           ` Philip Oakley
2022-12-07  0:54                             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-19 18:18             ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Pretty formats: Clarify column alignment Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 1/5] doc: pretty-formats: separate parameters from placeholders Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 2/5] doc: pretty-formats: delineate `%<|(` parameter values Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 3/5] doc: pretty-formats document negative column alignments Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 4/5] doc: pretty-formats describe use of ellipsis in truncation Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 5/5] doc: pretty-formats note wide char limitations, and add tests Philip Oakley

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