From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, git-packagers@googlegroups.com,
gitgitgadget@gmail.com, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de,
peff@peff.net, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net,
szeder.dev@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 5/7] grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:14:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqftnwe32i.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190626000329.32475-6-avarab@gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2019 02:03:27 +0200")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> Change "-f <file>" to not support patterns with "\0" in them under
> --fixed-strings, we'll now only support these under --perl-regexp with
> PCRE v2.
>
> A previous change to Documentation/git-grep.txt changed the
> description of "-f <file>" to be vague enough as to not promise that
> this would work, and by dropping support for this we make it a whole
> lot easier to move away from the kwset backend, which a subsequent
> change will try to do.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---
This step, together with all others, looks sensibly justified to me
only when I wear tinted glasses that make me pretend that the final
goal is to promote pcre backend, which is much more important than
serving the current users. When I remove the glasses, it smells
more like making excuses.
But as we saw discussed in the previous thread, I too think it is OK
to make 'Nobody would notice the updated behaviour of NUL in the
patterns' our working assumption and see if anybody screams---after
all we have to start somewhere to make progress.
A very good thing about this series is that it does *not* add a new
feature that people would miss, even if it went straight to 'master'
and to the next release. All it does is to optimize differently and
changing the behaviour we assume nobody depends on.
It is easy enough to revert the whole thing if it turns out to be
problematic even in the worst case, and nobody would notice ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-26 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-13 11:49 [PATCH 0/4] Support building with GCC v8.x/v9.x Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-06-13 11:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] poll (mingw): allow compiling with GCC 8 and DEVELOPER=1 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-06-13 11:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] kwset: allow building with GCC 8 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-06-13 16:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-14 9:53 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 10:00 ` [RFC/PATCH v1 0/4] compat/obstack: update from upstream SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 10:00 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] " SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 10:00 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] SQUASH??? compat/obstack: fix portability issues SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 10:00 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] SQUASH??? compat/obstack: fix build errors with Clang SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 10:00 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] compat/obstack: fix some sparse warnings SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 17:57 ` [RFC/PATCH v1 0/4] compat/obstack: update from upstream Jeff King
2019-06-14 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-14 20:30 ` Ramsay Jones
2019-06-14 21:24 ` Ramsay Jones
2019-06-17 18:36 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] kwset: allow building with GCC 8 Junio C Hamano
2019-06-17 18:26 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-06-14 22:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-14 22:55 ` Can we just get rid of kwset & obstack in favor of optimistically using PCRE v2 JIT? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-14 23:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-20 10:35 ` Jeff King
2019-06-15 9:01 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-06-15 19:15 ` brian m. carlson
2019-06-15 22:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] grep: move from kwset to optional PCRE v2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 14:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-27 9:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-27 16:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 18:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-28 7:23 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-28 16:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-02 11:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-02 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-02 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-03 10:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-03 10:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-03 11:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] log tests: test regex backends in "--encode=<enc>" tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] grep: don't use PCRE2?_UTF8 with "log --encoding=<non-utf8>" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] t4210: skip more command-line encoding tests on MinGW Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] grep: inline the return value of a function call used only once Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] grep tests: move "grep binary" alongside the rest Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] grep tests: move binary pattern tests into their own file Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] grep: make the behavior for NUL-byte in patterns sane Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] grep: remove the kwset optimization Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-01 21:21 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] grep: use PCRE v2 for optimized fixed-string search Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] log tests: test regex backends in "--encode=<enc>" tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] grep: don't use PCRE2?_UTF8 with "log --encoding=<non-utf8>" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] grep: inline the return value of a function call used only once Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] grep tests: move "grep binary" alongside the rest Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] grep tests: move binary pattern tests into their own file Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] grep: make the behavior for NUL-byte in patterns sane Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] grep: remove the kwset optimization Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] grep: use PCRE v2 for optimized fixed-string search Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/7] grep: inline the return value of a function call used only once Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/7] grep tests: move "grep binary" alongside the rest Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 14:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-26 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] grep tests: move binary pattern tests into their own file Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/7] grep: make the behavior for \0 in patterns sane Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-27 2:03 ` brian m. carlson
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/7] grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 6/7] grep: remove the kwset optimization Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 0:03 ` [RFC/PATCH 7/7] grep: use PCRE v2 for optimized fixed-string search Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-26 14:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-26 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-27 9:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-27 18:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-27 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-28 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-13 11:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] winansi: simplify loading the GetCurrentConsoleFontEx() function Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-06-13 11:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] config: avoid calling `labs()` on too-large data type Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-06-13 16:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-16 6:48 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-16 8:24 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-16 14:01 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-16 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-20 19:58 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-20 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-21 18:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-22 10:03 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-22 10:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] config: use unsigned_mult_overflows to check for overflows René Scharfe
2019-06-22 10:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] config: don't multiply in parse_unit_factor() René Scharfe
2019-06-22 10:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] config: simplify parsing of unit factors René Scharfe
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