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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Max Kirillov <max@max630•net>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] t4059: rewrite to be adaptive to hunk filtering
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 22:48:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61916gnt.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428076716-4449-5-git-send-email-max@max630.net> (Max Kirillov's message of "Fri, 3 Apr 2015 18:58:36 +0300")

Max Kirillov <max@max630•net> writes:

> Looks like there is no exact specification what `diff -c` and
> `diff --cc` should output. Considering this it is not reasonable to
> hardcode any specific output in test.

OK.

> Rather, it should verify that file
> selection behaves the same as hunk selection.

Hrm, really?  "git diff --raw" and "git diff -p -w" on two trees
would not show identical set of paths, when the blob object are
different byte-wise but are equivalent at the content level per
given definition of equivalence (e.g. "-w").  Given that --cc is
to look at the differences at hunk/content level to combine and omit
uninteresting ones from the output, relative to -c output, I would
imagine that the file selection and the hunk selection are expected
to behave differently.

So, having said that I am a bit skeptical about the description of
the goals, there are a few nits on the implementation, too.

> +# the difference in short file must be returned if and only if it is shown in long file
> +for fn in win1 win2 merge delete base only1 only2 only1discard only2discard; do
> +	if git diff --cc merge branch1 branch2 mergebase -- long/$fn | grep -q '^[ +-]\{3\}2\(change[12]|merge\)\?$'
> +	then

Just like the earlier parts of this patch, write a newline when you
do not have to write a semicolon, and split lines after pipe when
your pipeline gets long, i.e.

	for fn in win2 win2 ...
        do
		if git diff --cc ... |
			grep 'pattern'
		then

Do I smell some GNUism in your "grep" patterns?

You have

    '^[ +-]\{3\}2\(change[12]|merge\)\?$'

but matching zero-or-one repetition with ? is not in BRE, and \? to
use it in BRE is a GNU extension.

Also in BRE , '|' is not an alternation (and making it into such
with '\|' in BRE is a GNU extension IIRC.

Worse, you are not using backslash here to invoke GNU extension, so
I suspect the grep invocations in the patch may not be working as
you expect.

Doubly worse, what is shown by "diff -c" for line 2 seems to be
three [- +] columns, followed by one of

    2
    2change1
    2change2
    2merged

followed by the end of line, so your "|merge" part may never match.

We encourage people to avoid \{m,n\}, because, it is not supported
by some implementations even though it is specified in POSIX for
BRE.

Perhaps spelling out what you are expecting a bit more explicitly,
e.g.

	grep -e "^[-+ ][-+ ][-+ ]2$" \
             -e "^[-+ ][-+ ][-+ ]2change[12]$" \
             -e "^[-+ ][-+ ][-+ ]2merged$"

might be a reasonable way to write this in a more portable and
readable way.  And turn that into a helper shell function to make it
more readable and maintainable for a bonus point.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-12  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-02 20:34 [PATCH 0/4] diff --cc: relax path filtering Max Kirillov
2015-04-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add test for showing discarded changes with diff --cc Max Kirillov
2015-04-02 20:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-03 16:03     ` Max Kirillov
2015-04-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] combine-diff.c: refactor: extract insert_path() Max Kirillov
2015-04-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] diff --cc: relax too strict paths picking Max Kirillov
2015-04-02 20:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-02 20:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] t4059: rewrite to be adaptive to hunk filtering Max Kirillov
2015-04-02 21:13 ` [PATCH 0/4] diff --cc: relax path filtering Jeff King
2015-04-03 16:29   ` Max Kirillov
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH v2 " Max Kirillov
2015-04-03 15:58   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t4059: test 'diff --cc' with a change from only few parents Max Kirillov
2015-04-11 20:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-11 21:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-11 21:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-12  5:43       ` Max Kirillov
2015-04-12  5:51         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-14  4:22           ` Max Kirillov
2015-04-14  4:09         ` [PATCH/RFC] combine-diff.c: make intersect_paths() behave like hunk filtering Max Kirillov
2015-04-03 15:58   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] combine-diff.c: refactor: extract insert_path() Max Kirillov
2015-04-11 20:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-03 15:58   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] diff --cc: relax too strict paths picking Max Kirillov
2015-04-03 15:58   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t4059: rewrite to be adaptive to hunk filtering Max Kirillov
2015-04-12  5:48     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-04-14  4:18       ` Max Kirillov

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