Re: [tig] Feeding specific revisions to tig

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 8, 2008, 21:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20080808211916.GA30583@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <2c6b72b30808060406u10d7b332g22ea28fe5470ddb1@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:06:51PM +0200, Jonas Fonseca wrote:

> Sorry for restarting this old thread ...

I am glad you got a chance to look at it. :)

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> I actually added something that let's you alter the command executed
> for each view. So here is another possibility that can be used:
> 
> function tignowalk ()
> {
>    tmp=$(mktemp) # or .git/tigfiles or similar
>    # Safe stuff from "stdin" and run tig with custom rev-list command
>    cat > "$tmp
>    TIG_MAIN_CMD="git rev-list --pretty=raw --no-walk --stdin < $tmp"
> tig < /dev/tty
>    rm "$tmp"
> }

Neat, if a bit hack-ish. :) You are missing a closing quotation mark after

  cat > "$tmp

and the line break between TIG_MAIN_CMD and tig is obviously problematic (presumably an artifact of the email, but it confused my cut and paste efforts for a minute). One other thing to note is that even though you try to handle a $tmp with whitespace in the cat and rm commands, I suspect it would fail when tig hands TIG_MAIN_CMD to the shell. That would require double-quoting.

So here is my cut-and-pastable version:

  tignowalk() {
    tmp=$(mktemp)
    cat >"$tmp"
    TIG_MAIN_CMD="git rev-list --pretty=raw --no-walk --stdin <$tmp" \
      tig </dev/tty
    rm "$tmp"
  }

The output looks great, though. Doing

  git show-ref --heads | cut -d' ' -f2 | tignowalk

is nice. :)

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> The problem is that --no-walk doesn't seem to play nice with the
> --boundary flag that tig add by default. When the user requests
> --no-walk boundary commits are probably not interesting. My fix below
> has more information. I don't know if having only the "commit" line
> show up is a bug in git. At least there are no tests to confirm this
> or not.

Sorry, I don't know if that is intentional or not.

-Peff