Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: reset input record separator in parse_commit even on error

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:00:18 +0200

Jeff King wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 05:12:36PM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> index 7afdf33..60dd598 100755
>> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> @@ -897,8 +897,8 @@ sub parse_commit {
>>              my $fd = git_pipe("rev-list", "--header", "--parents", "--max-count=1", $commit_id)
>>                      or return;
>>              @commit_lines = split '\n', <$fd>;
>> -            close $fd or return;
>>              $/ = "\n";
>> +            close $fd or return;
>>              pop @commit_lines;
>>      }
>>      my $header = shift @commit_lines;
> 
> You missed the other early return from git_pipe. However, I think the
> approach is wrong; this is a great opportunity to use the dynamic
> scoping offered by 'local':
> 
>   else {
>     local $/ = "\0";
>     # do stuff with $/ as "\0"
>   }
>   # $/ has automatically been reset at the end of the block

And this should be done consistently, for all plain formats 
(blob_plain, blobdiff_plain, commitdiff_plain), and some other
 places.

Sometimes it is
  local $/ = "\0";
more often
  local $/ = undef;
(or equivalently but slightly less human friendly, just 'local $/');

> Looking further at this bit of code, it seems even more confusing,
> though. We split the output of rev-list on NUL, grab presumably the
> entire thing (since there shouldn't be any NULs in the output, right?)
> and then split it on newline into a list. Why aren't we doing this:
>   else {
>     open my $fd, ...;
>     @commit_lines = map { chomp; $_ } <$fd>;
>     ...

That is because by default git-rev-list separates output for different
commits (when --header option is used) bu NULL... only because of 
"--max-count=1" there is only _one_ record... nevertheless it ends with 
"\0" (NULL) character.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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