From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:34:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4ki6a0ex.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.880.v2.git.1613840865.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:07:43 +0000")
"Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> It is possible for a user to disable attribute-based filtering when
> committing by doing one of the following:
>
> * Create .git/info/attributes unapplying all possible transforming
> attributes.
> * Use git hash-object and git update-index to stage files manually.
>
> Doing the former requires keeping an up-to-date list of all attributes which
> can transform files when committing or checking out. Doing the latter is
> difficult, error-prone and slow when done from scripts.
>
> Instead, similarly to git hash-object, --no-filter can be added to git add
> to enable temporarily disabling filtering in an easy to use way.
I think brian's review covered if such a feature is desirable to
sufficient level, and I do not have anything to add in that area,
so I'll limit my comment to the general design and implementation.
In general, think three times before introducing --no-something
option. It often is much cleaner and futureproof if you instead
introduced --something option whose value defaults to true instead,
so that the end-user can say --no-something from the command line.
> - OPT_BOOL( 0 , "no-filters", &no_filters, N_("store file as is without filters")),
> -+ OPT_BIT(0 , "no-filters", &flags, N_("store file as is without filters"),
> ++ OPT_BIT(0, "no-filters", &flags, N_("store file as is without filters"),
> + HASH_RAW),
In other words, these should give "filters" option, and the code
should initialize the flags word with USE_CLEAN_FILTER bit on by
default (the use of "clean" here comes from "clean vs smudge", one
of the pair of filters end-user can customize the path the data
takes going into Git from the outside world; and the "clean" and
"smudge" datapaths also trigger non-custom standard ones like crlf
munging).
That way when a configuration variable support is introduced to
allow the users to say "I by default refuse to use the clean filters
when running 'git add'" by setting say "[add] cleanfilter = false",
the user can override that with "--filters" from the command line
"for just this time". The same goes for an alias that hardcodes
"--no-filters" on the command line, where allowing "--filters" lets
the users override it.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-20 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 18:12 [PATCH 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-19 18:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] add: add option --no-filters to disable attribute-based filtering Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-19 18:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] hash-object: use the new HASH_RAW flag instead of setting path to NULL Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-19 22:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add --no-filters option to git-add brian m. carlson
2021-02-20 8:06 ` Andrej Shadura
2021-02-20 9:30 ` Andrej Shadura
2021-02-20 14:10 ` brian m. carlson
2021-02-20 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] add: add option --no-filters to disable attribute-based filtering Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hash-object: use the new HASH_RAW flag instead of setting path to NULL Andrej Shadura via GitGitGadget
2021-02-20 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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