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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Use 'printf %s $x' notation in t5401
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:16:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq72hjzo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080130064845.GR24004@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:48:45 -0500")

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Do you really mean this? "printf %s 1 2 3" writes "123" without
>> terminating LF.  You seem to check only for size but to be
>> reusable you might want to use something like:
> 
> The only thing we care about is was there args or not to the hook.
> I probably could do that test differently, like say:
>
> 	echo $# >$GIT_DIR/pre-receive.args
>
> and then test that the file contains "0" instead of looking for it to
> be empty.  Not sure why I didn't write it that way in the beginning.
>
>> 	printf '%s\n' "$@"
>
> Eh.  Since all we care is that the argument count is 0 we probably
> should be looking at $# and calling it a day.

I'll apply as-is, but once you break the code that calls
pre-receive hook in such a way that it sends unexpected
arguments, you'd thank me for suggesting to print the arguments
separately while debugging the problem with the test script.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30  6:21 [PATCH 1/7] Use 'printf %s $x' notation in t5401 Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-30  6:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-30  6:48   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-31  1:16     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-31  3:41       ` Shawn O. Pearce

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