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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: santiago@nyu•edu
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] builtin/verify-tag: replace name argument with sha1
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:27:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8l6zoqc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459872449-7537-5-git-send-email-santiago@nyu.edu> (santiago@nyu.edu's message of "Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:07:27 -0400")

santiago@nyu•edu writes:

> From: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu•edu>
>
> This change is meant to prepare verify_tag for libification. Many
> existing modules/commands already do the refname to sha1 resolution, so
> should avoid resolving the refname twice. To avoid breaking
> builtin/verify-tag, we move the refname resolution outside of the
> verify_tag() call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu•edu>
> ---
>  builtin/verify-tag.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/verify-tag.c b/builtin/verify-tag.c
> index 1ca9a05..7a7c376 100644
> --- a/builtin/verify-tag.c
> +++ b/builtin/verify-tag.c
> @@ -42,25 +42,23 @@ static int run_gpg_verify(const char *buf, unsigned long size, unsigned flags)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int verify_tag(const char *name, unsigned flags)
> +static int verify_tag(const unsigned char *sha1, unsigned flags)
>  {
>  	enum object_type type;
> -	unsigned char sha1[20];
>  	char *buf;
> +	char *hex_sha1;
>  	unsigned long size;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	if (get_sha1(name, sha1))
> -		return error("tag '%s' not found.", name);
> -
> +	hex_sha1 = sha1_to_hex(sha1);
>  	type = sha1_object_info(sha1, NULL);
>  	if (type != OBJ_TAG)
>  		return error("%s: cannot verify a non-tag object of type %s.",
> -				name, typename(type));
> +				hex_sha1, typename(type));

So, if I said

    $ git verify-tag master

the code used to take "master" from argv[], fed it to verify_tag()
as parameter 'name', turned it to the object name of the commit,
noticed that it is not a tag, and complained that "master: cannot verify".

With this rewrite, the same invocation would cause "master" to be
turned into the object name, which is passed to verify_tag() and the
complaint is an overlong

    76bece327f490cb344b95ae8f869cbeb89a4d20b: cannot verify a non-tag object of type commit

That does not sound like a good change at all.

If you want to support a future caller of a libified version of
verify_tag() that has a raw object name but not the original name,
I'd suggest to make this function keep parameter 'name' while adding
the new parameter 'sha1'.  Then, the error reporting may become:

	return error("%s: cannot verify a non-tag object of type '%s'",
		     name ? name : sha1_to_hex(sha1), typename(type));

and the output would still be useful.  Further improvements may be

 - rename 'name' to 'report_name' to clarify that the parameter is
   only used for reporting, and that the tag object to verify is
   always identified by the new 'sha1' parameter.

 - use find_unique_abbrev() to shorten the fallback name displayed
   in the error message.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 16:07 [PATCH v5 0/6] tag: move PGP verification code to tag.c santiago
2016-04-05 16:07 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] builtin/verify-tag.c: Ignore SIGPIPE on gpg-interface santiago
2016-04-06 16:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-05 16:07 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] t7030-verify-tag: Adds validation for multiple tags santiago
2016-04-06  6:21   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-17 17:31     ` Santiago Torres
2016-04-17 18:19       ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-17 18:38         ` Santiago Torres
2016-04-17 18:53           ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-06 16:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-05 16:07 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] builtin/verify-tag: change variable name for readability santiago
2016-04-06 16:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-05 16:07 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] builtin/verify-tag: replace name argument with sha1 santiago
2016-04-06  6:56   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-06 16:27   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-04-07  3:38     ` Santiago Torres
2016-04-05 16:07 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] builtin/verify-tag: move verification code to tag.c santiago
2016-04-06 16:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-05 16:07 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] tag: use gpg_verify_function in tag -v call santiago
2016-04-06  7:09   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-05 16:44 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] tag: move PGP verification code to tag.c Santiago Torres
2016-04-06  7:18 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-07  3:40   ` Santiago Torres
2016-04-07 16:19     ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-17 17:34       ` Santiago Torres
2016-04-17 18:14         ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-06 16:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07  3:33   ` Santiago Torres

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