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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] sha1_file: implement changes for "cat-file --literally -t"
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1tl2ylfo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F9E6B6.4070105@gmail.com> (karthik nayak's message of "Fri, 06 Mar 2015 23:11:10 +0530")

karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail•com> writes:

>> ... I suspect that the caller should supply a pointer to struct
>> object_info, i.e. something along these lines:
>>
>>      struct object_info oi = { NULL };
>>      struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>>      enum object_type type;
>>
>>      ...
>>
>>      oi.typename = &sb;
>>      sha1_object_info_literally(sha1, &oi);
>>      if (!sb.len)
>>          that is an error;
>>      else
>>          use sb.buf as the name;
>>
>>      strbuf_release(&sb);
> I thought I could get the calling function "cat_one_file()" to send
> the address to a struct strbuf. Like this ..
>
> struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
> length = sha1_object_info_literally(sha1, &sb);
> if (length < 0)
> die("git cat-file --literally -t %s: failed",
>             obj_name);
> printf("%s\n", sb.buf);
> strbuf_release(&sb);
> return 0;
>
> What do you think? Is this ok?

When I gave you $gmane/264420, I was actually hoping that we do not
have to have "object-info-literally" helper at all, and instead the
caller in cat-file that deals with "-t" option can become something
like this:
	
	struct object_info oi = { NULL };
	struct strbuf typename = STRBUF_INIT;
	unsigned flags = LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT;

        if (doing the --literally stuff)
		flags |= LOOKUP_LITERALLY;

	...

	switch (...) {
	case 't':
        	oi.typename = &typename;
                sha1_object_info_extended(sha1, &oi, flags);
		if (typename.len) {
                	printf("%s\n", typename.buf);
			return 0;
		}
                break;
	...

The change illustrated in $gmane/264420 is probably incomplete and
some calls from the sha1_object_info_extended() after that change
may still need to be tweaked to pay attention to LOOKUP_LITERALLY
bit (e.g. parse_sha1_header() may want to learn not to barf when
seeing an unexpected typename in the header when the caller asks to
look up "literally").

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-06 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-05 18:16 [PATCH v3 0/3] cat-file: add "--literally" option karthik nayak
2015-03-05 18:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] cache: modify for "cat-file --literally -t" Karthik Nayak
2015-03-08 22:25   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-03-09 12:56     ` karthik nayak
2015-03-05 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] sha1_file: implement changes " Karthik Nayak
2015-03-05 23:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-06 17:41     ` karthik nayak
2015-03-06 19:28       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-03-07 10:04         ` karthik nayak
2015-03-08  8:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-08  8:48             ` karthik nayak
2015-03-08  9:03               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-08 10:49                 ` karthik nayak
2015-03-08 19:09                   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-09 13:08                     ` karthik nayak
2015-03-05 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] cat-file: add "--literally" option Karthik Nayak
2015-03-08 22:50   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-03-09 12:53     ` karthik nayak

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