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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Emily Shaffer" <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <derrickstolee@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] config: add --literal-value option
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:30:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk0ufubha.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7973fe1-eb64-2f5a-ecb3-fadf2ba9764d@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:23:07 -0500")

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/20/2020 8:19 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 19 2020, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> 
>>> As reported [1], 'git maintenance unregister' fails when a repository is
>>> located in a directory with regex glob characters.
>> 
>> Just as bikeshedding on the name: Did you consider something
>> thematically similar to the corresponding git-grep option,
>> i.e. --fixed-string[s]. I see -F is also free in git-config(1).
>
> I definitely wanted to be specific about "value" in the name,
> since some options include regexes on the key as well. I'm open
> to new ideas, and combining your idea with mine would introduce
> "--fixed-value". Thoughts?

I very much appreciate "value" is in the name, with the current
semantics that this only controls how the pattern matching is done
on the value side and not on the key side.  When making an obvious
addition of a separate option to control how the pattern matching is
done on keys in the future, we would regret if we called this option
"--fixed-strings" today.  And no, I do not think it is an acceptable
option to introduce "--fixed-strings" that only affects value side
and then later change its behaviour to affect also on the key side.

	Side note.  It _is_ possible to ship such a "--fixed-strings"
	option that does not work on the key side and document it as
	a known bug, later to be fixed.  I am not sure if I like it.

But stepping back a bit, is the extra flexibility that allows us to
control the matching on keys and values separately with such a
scheme really worth the complexity (at the end-user facing interface
level, not the implementation level)?

So an alternative may be to use a single option, whose name would
probably be one of "--(literal|fixed)-(match|strings)", but extend
the implementation in this series to make the single option affect
both the value and key matching the same way.

That would however be more work in the shorter term.  Offhand, I am
not sure if I like it (i.e. spending time and effort that is more
than the absolute minimum necessary to fix a breakage.  And the end
result of doing so is less powerful/flexible, even though it may be
easier to explain to users simply because the feature is less
powerful than it could be).  It would be easier, if I can convince
myself that the extra flexibility is not worth it, to just declare
that simpler is better here, but I am not quite ready to do so yet.

As to "-F", I do not think it is a good idea; in some context "-F"
means work on a <file> given via that option, i.e. "-F <file>".

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-20 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 15:52 [PATCH 0/7] config: add --literal-value option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/7] t1300: test "set all" mode with value_regex Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 22:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-20  2:09     ` brian m. carlson
2020-11-20  2:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-20 18:39     ` Jeff King
2020-11-20 22:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-21 22:27       ` brian m. carlson
2020-11-22  3:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24  2:38           ` Jeff King
2020-11-24 19:43             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 2/7] t1300: add test for --replace-all " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 3/7] config: convert multi_replace to flags Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 22:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 4/7] config: add --literal-value option, un-implemented Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 22:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-20  6:35   ` Martin Ågren
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 5/7] config: plumb --literal-value into config API Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 22:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 6/7] config: implement --literal-value with --get* Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 15:52 ` [PATCH 7/7] maintenance: use 'git config --literal-value' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-19 23:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-20 13:19 ` [PATCH 0/7] config: add --literal-value option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-20 13:23   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-20 18:30     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-11-20 18:51       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-20 21:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24 12:35     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-23 16:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] config: add --fixed-value option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] t1300: test "set all" mode with value_regex Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 19:37     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] t1300: add test for --replace-all " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 19:40     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] config: convert multi_replace to flags Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 21:43     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 19:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 21:51     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-23 22:41       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-25 14:08         ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-25 17:22           ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-25 17:28           ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-25 19:30             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-25 19:29           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] config: plumb --fixed-value into config API Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 22:21     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-24  0:52       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-25 15:41       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-25 17:55         ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] config: implement --fixed-value with --get* Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 19:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 22:43     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-23 16:05   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] maintenance: use 'git config --fixed-value' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 21:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 22:48     ` Emily Shaffer
2020-11-23 23:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 19:33   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] config: add --fixed-value option Junio C Hamano
2020-11-25 22:12   ` [PATCH v3 0/8] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 1/8] config: convert multi_replace to flags Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 2/8] config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:50       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 3/8] t1300: test "set all" mode with value-pattern Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 4/8] t1300: add test for --replace-all " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 5/8] config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 23:04       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 6/8] config: plumb --fixed-value into config API Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 7/8] config: implement --fixed-value with --get* Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 22:12     ` [PATCH v3 8/8] maintenance: use 'git config --fixed-value' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-11-25 23:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-25 23:00     ` [PATCH v3 0/8] config: add --fixed-value option Junio C Hamano
2020-11-26 11:17       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-12-01  4:45         ` Junio C Hamano

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