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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, John Hawley <warthog19@eaglescrag•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add new Git::Repo API
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:17:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080718171733.GV10151@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807181905.07123.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:05:05PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Dnia piątek 18. lipca 2008 18:48, Petr Baudis napisał:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:19:31AM +0200, Lea Wiemann wrote:
> 
> > > No, you should never pass in an invalid SHA1 in the first place.  The
> > > above piece of documentation is just a warning that bugs will show up
> > > delayed.  IOW, this is not the right place to have your error handling.
> > > 
> > > If you're getting a SHA1 through the user-interface, check its existence
> > > with get_sha1 before passing it to the constructor.
> > 
> > But that's an expensive operation, you need extra Git exec for this,
> > while all the Git commands can do the checks for you, if you give them
> > the chance.
> > 
> > I was doing pretty much this thing in Cogito (initially out of
> > necessity) and it made it ungodly slow for any kind of batch operations.
> 
> Lea probably would point out that thanks to '--batch-check' option
> to git-cat-file, and "reuse => 1" option to ->get_bidi_pipe you would
> need only one extra Git exec...  BUT it is one extra Git exec per
> entire Perl script (one per request, for example, for gitweb).
> And it wouldn't help batching Perl script commands.

Even so, I don't like this restriction simply since it makes the usage
more complicated - in my commandline tool, I will be forced to write

	my $csha1 = $repo->get_sha1($ARGV[0]);
	$csha1 or die "a random inconsistent error message";
	$repo->get_commit($csha1)

instead of

	$repo->get_commit($ARGV[0]) # die if unresolved

and I don't understand why. Me and 80% of the scripts don't *care* about
some more graceful error handling, and if gitweb and the other 20%
(or less) do, *they* should do the extra work, not me.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know
its true name.  -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-18 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11  1:06 [PATCH 0/3] Git::Repo API and gitweb caching Lea Wiemann
2008-07-11  1:10 ` [PATCH 1/3 v9] gitweb: add test suite with Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI Lea Wiemann
2008-07-11  1:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] add new Git::Repo API Lea Wiemann
2008-07-13 21:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-14  1:04     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-13 23:28   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-14  2:29     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-14  1:40   ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-14 22:19     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-18 16:48       ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-18 17:05         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-18 17:17           ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-07-18 18:09         ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-18 18:19           ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-18 18:23           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-19 20:54         ` Statictics on Git.pm usage in git commands (was: [PATCH 2/3] add new Git::Repo API) Jakub Narebski
2008-07-19 21:14           ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20  0:16             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-20 21:38               ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 10:38           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-20 10:49             ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 12:33               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-20 12:58                 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 13:21                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-14 23:41     ` [PATCH 2/3] add new Git::Repo API Jakub Narebski
2008-07-15  0:11       ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-18 16:54       ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-19  0:03         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-19 19:07         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-20 21:36           ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 21:50             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-16 18:21   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-16 20:32     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-17 23:49       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-18 13:40         ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-18 15:35           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-18 16:51             ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-11  1:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: use new Git::Repo API, and add optional caching Lea Wiemann
2008-07-14 21:23   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-14 23:03     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-14 23:14       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-14 23:56         ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-15  0:52           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-15  1:16             ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-15  1:28               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-15  1:44                 ` J.H.
2008-07-15  1:50                 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-15  2:03                   ` J.H.
2008-07-11  1:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] Git::Repo API and gitweb caching Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11  9:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-11 14:07   ` Lea Wiemann
2008-07-11 16:27     ` Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-07-12 15:08       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-19  5:35 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-08-18 19:34 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-08-18 19:39   ` [PATCH 1/3 v10] gitweb: add test suite with Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI Lea Wiemann
2008-08-19  1:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 14:37       ` Lea Wiemann
2008-08-18 19:39   ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] add new Perl API: Git::Repo, Git::Commit, Git::Tag, and Git::RepoRoot Lea Wiemann
2008-08-19  1:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 15:06       ` Lea Wiemann
2008-08-19 13:51     ` Lea Wiemann
2008-08-18 19:39   ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] gitweb: use new Git::Repo API, and add optional caching Lea Wiemann

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