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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Firmin Martin <firminmartin24@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmail.com>,
	Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>,
	Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] compat/terminal: let prompt accept input from pipe
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 15:17:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq35utokuu.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJof0/Eq18QnLumV@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 11 May 2021 02:10:27 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:38:10PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> >> I actually inspired myself from the two occurrences of git_prompt in
>> >> builtin/bisect--helper.c introduced in 09535f056b (bisect--helper:
>> >> reimplement `bisect_autostart` shell function in C, 2020-09-24).
>> >> Not sure if they should also be converted to a simple fgets.
>> >
>> > Yes, I think they should be switched.
>> 
>> OK, that is because in the context of a "bisect" session, we won't
>> be feeding any real data from its standard input, unlike "git am"
>> that may well be eating a patch stream from its standard input
>> stream.  If so, makes sense.
>
> Yes, though even in "git am", we forbid using interactive mode with
> patches on stdin (and did so even when we were reading from the tty;
> presumably the rule dates back to when it was a shell script and was
> using stdin).

As long as the "prompt and accept an single-line answer from the end
user" is restricted to "git am -i", I'll be perfectly OK with that.
I just do not want my regular "type '|' in my MUA to pipe the
current article to a command, and give 'git am -s' as the command"
workflow to get broken in the future when somebody blindly follows a
carelessly written direction to use a helper that reads from the
standard input for confirmation.  The condition under which use of
that helper is appropriate needs to be clearly spelled out.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-11  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-06 16:50 [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] compat/terminal: let prompt accept input from pipe Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 23:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-07  4:54     ` Jeff King
2021-05-07  5:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-10  4:18       ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-10 21:32         ` Jeff King
2021-05-11  3:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11  6:10             ` Jeff King
2021-05-11  6:17               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-11  6:37                 ` Jeff King
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 2/8] format-patch: confirmation whenever patches exist Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 23:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-10  3:30     ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-10  7:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11  3:17         ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 3/8] format-patch: add config option confirmOverwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 4/8] format-patch: add the option --confirm-overwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH v1 5/8] t4014: test patches overwrite confirmation Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:51 ` [PATCH v1 6/8] t4014: fix tests overwriting cover letter in silent Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:51 ` [PATCH v1 7/8] doc/format-patch: describe --confirm-overwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-07  3:32   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-10  4:22     ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 16:51 ` [PATCH v1 8/8] config/format: describe format.confirmOverwrite Firmin Martin
2021-05-06 22:33 ` [PATCH v1 0/8] format-patch: introduce --confirm-overwrite Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11  0:18   ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-07  1:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07  8:55   ` Denton Liu
2021-05-11  1:09     ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-11  5:12       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11  5:03     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 14:02   ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-11  0:46   ` Firmin Martin
2021-05-10 12:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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