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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix•eu>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>,
	Luke Diamand <luke@diamand•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] name-rev: provide debug output
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:33:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzig1xpm6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd1cxz5gb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:06:28 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Michael J Gruber <git@grubix•eu> writes:
>
>>>The only case that this change may make a difference I can think of
>>>is when you have a tag object pointed at from outside refs/tags
>>>(e.g. refs/heads/foo is a tag object); if you are trying to change
>>>the definition of "from_tag" from the current "Is the tip inside
>>>refs/tags/?" to "Is the tip either inside refs/tags/ or is it a tag
>>>object anywhere?", that may be a good change (I didn't think things
>>>through, though), but that shouldn't be hidden inside a commit that
>>>claims to only add support for debugging.
>>>
>>>What problem are you solving?  
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot about that change and failed to mention it.
>>
>> It makes no difference in the non-debug case which cares about the
>> Boolean only. In the debug case, I want to distinguish between
>> annotated and lightweight tags, just like describe --debug does. By
>> adding 1 via deref and passing this down, I know that an annotated tag
>> gets the value 2, a lightweight tag 1 and everything else 0, just like
>> describe --tags.
>
> So it sounds like you meant to do something else, and the
> implementation is wrong for that something else (i.e. it wouldn't do
> the right thing for a tag object outside refs/tags/, with or without
> the "--debug" option passed).

The damage seems worse, but I may be misreading the code.

is_better_name() compares name->from_tag and from_tag numerically,
because it was designed to take a boolean view of that variable.
Now, an artificially bumped 2 gets compared with name->from_tag that
may be 1 and gets different priority.  That artificially inflated
value may be propagated to name->from_tag when the current tip is
judged as a better basis for naming the object.

If this change is only for debugging, perhaps inside if(data->debug)
you added, instead of looking at from_tag, you can look at both
from_tag and deref to choose which prio-nmes to show, without
butchering the value in from_tag variable to affect the existing
code that is exercised with or without --debug?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-31 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-15 13:15 [PATCH 0/3] describe --contains sanity Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] describe: debug is incompatible with contains Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 19:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 10:54     ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 13:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-prompt: add a describe style for any tags Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 19:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 10:56     ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 13:15 ` [RFD PATCH 3/3] name-rev: Allow lightweight tags and branch refs Michael J Gruber
2017-03-15 16:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 19:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 20:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 22:50       ` [PATCH 0/2] Teach name-rev to pay more attention to lightweight tags Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 22:50         ` [PATCH 1/2] name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name Junio C Hamano
2017-03-15 22:50         ` [PATCH 2/2] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17  4:07           ` Lars Schneider
2017-03-17  5:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17  5:56               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 17:09                 ` Lars Schneider
2017-03-17 17:17                   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 22:43                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-29 14:39                       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] name-rev sanity Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 14:39                         ` [PATCH v2 1/3] name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 14:39                         ` [PATCH v2 2/3] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 14:39                         ` [PATCH v2 3/3] name-rev: provide debug output Michael J Gruber
2017-03-29 17:15                         ` [PATCH v2 0/3] name-rev sanity Junio C Hamano
2017-03-29 17:43                           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-30 13:48                             ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-30 17:30                               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 13:51                                 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 13:51                                   ` [PATCH v3 1/4] name-rev: refactor logic to see if a new candidate is a better name Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 13:51                                   ` [PATCH v3 2/4] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 13:51                                   ` [PATCH v3 3/4] name-rev: provide debug output Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 16:52                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 16:55                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 18:02                                       ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-31 18:06                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 18:33                                           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-04-03 14:46                                             ` Michael J Gruber
2017-04-03 17:07                                               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-20  5:19                                               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 19:10                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31 13:51                                   ` [PATCH v3 4/4] describe: pass --debug down to name-rev Michael J Gruber
2017-03-17 11:25           ` [PATCH 2/2] name-rev: favor describing with tags and use committer date to tiebreak Michael J Gruber
2017-03-17 16:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-16  0:14         ` [PATCH 0/2] Teach name-rev to pay more attention to lightweight tags Stefan Beller
2017-03-16 10:28         ` Jacob Keller

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