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[PATCH 3/4] update-hook: parse the tag header in preparation to use the tag type

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 20, 2007, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID
<200703201058.42753.andyparkins@gmail.com>

The tag header is parsed with a while loop and read command. I'm not entirely sure how portable it is, as it had to use the following unusual heredoc format:

  while read field value
  do
    # ..
  done <<< "$(some command)"

This was necessary because piping the output to a while doesn't work because the pipe is run in a separate process and hence setting variables inside it has no effect in the main script process. This "<<<" heredoc notation works around that problem, but I have no idea how widely supported it is. The alternative (should it be necessary) is to wastefully make multiple "git-cat-file | sed" calls - yuck.

This patch also updates the user/time extraction from the "tagger" field to use the variable $tagger, rather than the "git-cat-file | sed" call used previously.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---
 templates/hooks--update |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/templates/hooks--update b/templates/hooks--update
index 31e72ca..fd4c081 100644
--- a/templates/hooks--update
+++ b/templates/hooks--update
@@ -215,15 +215,33 @@ case "$refname_type" in
 			echo "      from  $oldrev"
 		fi
 
+		# Read the tag header
+		while read field value
+		do
+			case "$field" in
+			object)
+				tagobject="$value"
+				;;
+			type)
+				tagtype="$value"
+				;;
+			tag)
+				# Confirm that this tag has the right name?  Nah
+				;;
+			tagger)
+				tagger="$value"
+				;;
+			esac
+		done <<< "$(git cat-file tag $newrev | head -q -n 4)"
+
 		# If this tag succeeds another, then show which tag it replaces
 		prevtag=$(git describe --abbrev=0 $newrev^ 2>/dev/null)
 		if [ -n "$prevtag" ]; then
 			echo "  replaces  $prevtag"
 		fi
 
-		# Read the tag details
-		eval $(git cat-file tag $newrev | \
-			sed -n '4s/tagger \([^>]*>\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/tagger="\1" ts="\2"/p')
+		# Extract user and time from tagger variable
+		eval $(sed -n 's/\([^>]*>\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/tagger="\1" ts="\2"/p' <<< "$tagger")
 		tagged=$(date --date="1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 $ts seconds" +"$DATEFORMAT")
 
 		echo " tagged by  $tagger"
-- 
1.5.0.3.402.g0c48
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  1. 3/4 update-hook: parse the tag header in preparation to use the tag typeAndy Parkins, Mar 20, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 20, 2007
  3. Andy ParkinsMar 20, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceMar 20, 2007

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