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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Firmin Martin <firminmartin24@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] prompt.h: clarify the non-use of git_prompt
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 08:03:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmtsy8cdt.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv97m8dnw.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 14 May 2021 07:36:03 +0900")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I have a strong objection against the above phrasing.
>
> If we are asking user for interactive input, this SHOULD be used,
> especially if we might be reading the data to work on from the
> standard input and we may need to ask the user to interactively
> instruct us what to do to that data.  The only plausible reason that
> we may want to avoid it and instead prefer the (misnamed)
> read_line_interactively() to read whatever from the standard input
> (which may not be "interactive" at all, which is why I said
> "misnamed") is because our test framework does not use setsid (and
> setsid(1) may not be universally available) with pty to emulate tty
> input, isn't it?
>
>>  char *git_prompt(const char *prompt, int flags);
>>  
>>  int git_read_line_interactively(struct strbuf *line);

So, here is an alternative that nudges users away from this helper,
but with honesty.  I also suggest a better name for that misnamed
"interactively" function in the comment, but will leave it as an
exercise to readers to come up with a patch to rename the function.

/*
 * Give prompt to the user and accept interactive input from the
 * controlling terminal (/dev/tty).  This function can be used even
 * when the standard input is being used to feed us real data to
 * operate on, as we open /dev/tty ourselves for user interaction.
 *
 * In a codepath that never uses the standard input for real data,
 * consider using git_read_line_from_standard_input() instead, as it
 * is easier to write tests for (our test framework currently does not
 * make it easy to simulate end-user input coming from /dev/tty).
 */


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-13 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-13 21:41 [PATCH 0/2] Refactor some prompts Firmin Martin
2021-05-13 21:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] prompt.h: clarify the non-use of git_prompt Firmin Martin
2021-05-13 22:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-13 23:03     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-15 10:12     ` Jeff King
2021-05-13 21:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] builtin: use git_read_line_interactively to prompt Firmin Martin
2021-05-13 22:51   ` Junio C Hamano

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