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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net,
	steadmon@google.com, jrnieder@gmail.com, peff@peff.net,
	congdanhqx@gmail.com, phillip.wood123@gmail.com,
	emilyshaffer@google.com, sluongng@gmail.com,
	jonathantanmy@google.com,
	Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:19:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8se2z7uh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0314258c5cbb8fd771c35e433bf6be95297c4597.1598380805.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:40:01 +0000")

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> +SYNOPSIS
> +--------
> +[verse]
> +'git for-each-repo' --config=<config> [--] <arguments>
> + ...
> +--config=<config>::
> +	Use the given config variable as a multi-valued list storing
> +	absolute path names.

Would it make sense to allow this config to be read from the current
repository, I wonder.  It is probably designed to be written to
either ~/.gitconfig or /etc/gitconfig because it is probably a need
that is not per-repository to list repositories for various purposes
specified by the config key, but I suspect there _might_ be a good
use case for storing some custom list of repositories in the
configuration file local to a repository, but it is not quite
obvious what it is.

If we have a good example, we may want to spell it out---that would
help future readers who wonder about this (just like I am doing now).

Also, if we do read from local config, should there be a way to say
"ah, you may have read values from /etc/gitconfig and ~/.gitconfig,
but please forget them---I have a full list I care when you are
running in this repository", i.e. clear the list.  It is purely a
convention and there is no built-in mechanism for this in the config
API, but often it is signalled by giving an empty string as a value.

By the way, I do not have a good concrete suggestion, but can we use
something better than <config> as the placeholder?  I first thought
this was naming the name of a file that lists repositories, not the
config variable name in our usual config namespace.

> +static int run_command_on_repo(const char *path,
> +			       void *cbdata)

Is that on repo or in repo?  When I saw "-C" on the command line, I
immediately thought of "in repo".

> +{
> +	int i;
> +	struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
> +	struct strvec *args = (struct strvec *)cbdata;
> +
> +	child.git_cmd = 1;
> +	strvec_pushl(&child.args, "-C", path, NULL);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < args->nr; i++)
> +		strvec_push(&child.args, args->v[i]);

Would strvec_pushv() work, or is args->v[] not NULL terminated?

> +	return run_command(&child);
> +}


> +	values = repo_config_get_value_multi(the_repository,
> +					     config_key);

Not your fault, but it is a bit unsatisfactory that we do not have
special "type" meant for paths in the config API, unlike the
parse-options API where there is a "filename" type that is a bit
richer than a vanilla "string" type by allowing "prefix" handling.
For the purposes of this, as the values are limited to absolute/full
pathnames, it does not hurt as much, though.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-25 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-19 17:16 [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Maintenance III: background maintenance Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 1/7] maintenance: optionally skip --auto process Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-20  2:06   ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-08-20 12:12     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 3/7] maintenance: add --scheduled option and config Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-20 14:51   ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-08-24 14:03     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 4/7] for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-20 15:00   ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-08-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] maintenance: add [un]register subcommands Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] maintenance: add start/stop subcommands Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-19 17:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] maintenance: recommended schedule in register/start Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
     [not found] ` <bdc27fa28ee70222ed3c7c9863746ace8ea835e4.1597857409.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
2020-08-20 14:34   ` [PATCH 2/7] maintenance: store the "last run" time in config Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-08-25 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] [RFC] Maintenance III: background maintenance Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 18:39   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] maintenance: optionally skip --auto process Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 21:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 12:29       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-26 16:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25 18:39   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] maintenance: store the "last run" time in config Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 21:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 13:34       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-26 17:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-27 13:02           ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-25 18:40   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] maintenance: add --scheduled option and config Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 22:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 15:30       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-27 15:47         ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-25 18:40   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 22:19     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-08-26 16:03       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-08-25 18:40   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] maintenance: add [un]register subcommands Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 18:40   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] maintenance: add start/stop subcommands Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-25 18:40   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] maintenance: recommended schedule in register/start Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45   ` [PATCH v3 0/6] [RFC] Maintenance III: background maintenance Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] maintenance: optionally skip --auto process Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] maintenance: add --schedule option and config Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] maintenance: add [un]register subcommands Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] maintenance: add start/stop subcommands Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-28 15:45     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] maintenance: recommended schedule in register/start Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 12:42 ` [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Maintenance III: background maintenance Michal Suchánek

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