Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] grep: prepare grep for submodules

From: Chris Packham <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:34:08 -0700

On 29/09/10 18:10, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Chris Packham <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Add --submodule-prefix option to pass to subprocess grep invocations. The
>> prefix is then used when outputting the results.
> 
> I haven't followed the recursive submodule support in Git lately. But
> I think --submodule-prefix is unnecessary. I would imagine you need to
> add --submodule-prefix to a lot more commands as they support recusive
> submodule search. There is a corner case in Git's prefix setup that we
> can utilize to avoid the new option.
> 
> If you do this at the superproject repo:
> 
> $ GIT_DIR=path/to/submodule/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=path/to/submodule git grep blah
> 
> I would expect that it shows the result correctly (i.e. all files
> prefixed by "path/to/submodule"), but it does not right now. If you
> make that setup work, then you don't need --submodule-prefix, just set
> GIT_DIR/GIT_WORK_TREE properly and run "git grep".
> 
> You can make setup_explicit_git_dir() realize that situation (current
> working directory outside $GIT_WORK_TREE), then calculate and save the
> submodule prefix in startup_info struct. Then "git grep" or any
> commands can just read startup_info to find out the submodule prefix.

Here's my first naive attempt at implementing what you describe. Needs
tests, more comments, sign-off etc.

One situation that could be handled better is when the cwd is a
subdirectory of the specified worktree. At the moment this ends up
giving the full path to the worktree, the output would look much nicer
if it gave the relative path (e.g. ../../).

---8<---
From: Chris Packham <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:19:29 -0700
Subject: [RFC PATCH] save the work tree prefix in startup_info

This is the relative path between the cwd and the worktree or the
absolute path of the worktree if the worktree is not a subdirectory
of the worktree.
---
 cache.h |    1 +
 dir.c   |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 dir.h   |    1 +
 setup.c |    4 ++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index e1d3ffd..f320e78 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1111,6 +1111,7 @@ const char *split_cmdline_strerror(int cmdline_errno);
 /* git.c */
 struct startup_info {
 	int have_repository;
+	const char *prefix;
 };
 extern struct startup_info *startup_info;

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 58ec1a1..2148730 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -1036,6 +1036,32 @@ char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size,
const char *dir)
 	}
 }

+char *get_relative_wt(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir)
+{
+	char *cwd = buffer;
+	
+	if (!dir)
+		return NULL;
+	if (!getcwd(buffer, size))
+		die_errno("can't find the current directory");
+	if (!is_absolute_path(dir))
+		dir = make_absolute_path(dir);
+	if (strstr(dir, cwd)) {
+		dir += strlen(cwd);
+		switch(*dir){
+		case '\0':
+			return NULL;
+		case '/':
+			dir++;
+			break;
+		default:
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	strncpy(buffer, dir, size);
+	return buffer;
+}
+
 int is_inside_dir(const char *dir)
 {
 	char buffer[PATH_MAX];
diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index b3e2104..d3c161f 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ extern void add_exclude(const char *string, const char
*base,
 extern int file_exists(const char *);

 extern char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir);
+extern char *get_relative_wt(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir);
 extern int is_inside_dir(const char *dir);

 static inline int is_dot_or_dotdot(const char *name)
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index a3b76de..bd9d9fd 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ static const char *setup_explicit_git_dir(const char
*gitdirenv,
 				const char *work_tree_env, int *nongit_ok)
 {
 	static char buffer[1024 + 1];
+	static char wtbuf[1024 + 1];
 	const char *retval;

 	if (PATH_MAX - 40 < strlen(gitdirenv))
@@ -337,6 +338,9 @@ static const char *setup_explicit_git_dir(const char
*gitdirenv,
 	}
 	if (check_repository_format_gently(nongit_ok))
 		return NULL;
+
+	startup_info->prefix=get_relative_wt(wtbuf, sizeof(wtbuf) - 1,
+			get_git_work_tree());
 	retval = get_relative_cwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer) - 1,
 			get_git_work_tree());
 	if (!retval || !*retval)
-- 
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