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Re: [PATCH] prepare deprecation of git-revert

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2008, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20081102093225.GA32296@laptop>
In-Reply-To
<20081031165003.GA5355@steel.home>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:50:03PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> Pierre Habouzit, Fri, Oct 31, 2008 16:55:27 +0100:
> > @@ -439,16 +436,17 @@ static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
> >  
> >  int cmd_revert(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >  {
> > +#if 0
> > +	warning("git revert is deprecated, please use git cherry-pick --revert/-R instead");
> > +#endif
> 
> "git revert" is much shorter to type than "git cherry-pick -R".
> How about renaming "cherry-pick" into something short, like "pick"?

Maybe a patch like this can help? With it you can type "git cp" for cherry-pick. If someday "git cp" is added, you can type "git c-p", much shorter.

--<--
commit dce5cad329390905bb91115a9de0153772be57d8
Author: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Nov 1 17:12:04 2008 +0700
    Add git command expansion
    
    This allows git commands to be typed shorter (in shells that do not
    support autocompletion). There are three types of expansion:
    
     - "foo" matches "foo*" commands (bi -> bisect)
     - "foo" also matches "f*-oo*" (fim -> fast-import)
     - "foo-bar" (with dash) matches "foo*-bar*" (fo-p -> format-patch)
    
    This feature is only enabled if core.commandexpansion is true. It
    may work better if we can limit the command set (to porcelain
    only for example) but I have yet to find a way to pull
    commands-list.txt to help.c.
diff --git a/builtin.h b/builtin.h
index 1495cf6..9fb0fef 100644
--- a/builtin.h
+++ b/builtin.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ extern const char git_more_info_string[];
 
 extern void list_common_cmds_help(void);
 extern const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
+extern const char *expand_command(const char *cmd);
 extern void prune_packed_objects(int);
 extern int read_line_with_nul(char *buf, int size, FILE *file);
 extern int fmt_merge_msg(int merge_summary, struct strbuf *in,
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 89feb0b..1bbe340 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct pager_config {
 	const char *cmd;
 	int val;
 };
+static int command_expansion;
 
 static int pager_command_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data)
 {
@@ -415,6 +416,13 @@ static void execv_dashed_external(const char **argv)
 	strbuf_release(&cmd);
 }
 
+static int git_command_expansion_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.commandexpansion"))
+		command_expansion = git_config_bool(var, value);
+
+	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
+}
 
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
@@ -501,6 +509,15 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 				cmd, argv[0]);
 			exit(1);
 		}
+		git_config(git_command_expansion_config, NULL);
+		if (command_expansion) {
+			const char *expand_cmd = expand_command(cmd);
+			if (expand_cmd) {
+				argv[0] = expand_cmd;
+				handle_internal_command(argc, argv);
+				execv_dashed_external(argv);
+			}
+		}
 		argv[0] = help_unknown_cmd(cmd);
 		handle_internal_command(argc, argv);
 		execv_dashed_external(argv);
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index fd87bb5..4f0e5a0 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -359,6 +359,67 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 	exit(1);
 }
 
+const char *expand_command(const char *cmd)
+{
+	int i, n, len;
+	struct cmdnames main_cmds, other_cmds;
+	char *src, *dst;
+
+	memset(&main_cmds, 0, sizeof(main_cmds));
+	memset(&other_cmds, 0, sizeof(main_cmds));
+
+	load_command_list("git-", &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
+
+	add_cmd_list(&main_cmds, &aliases);
+	add_cmd_list(&main_cmds, &other_cmds);
+	qsort(main_cmds.names, main_cmds.cnt,
+	      sizeof(main_cmds.names), cmdname_compare);
+	uniq(&main_cmds);
+
+	len = strlen(cmd);
+	n = -1;
+	src = strchr(cmd, '-');
+	for (i = 0;i < main_cmds.cnt; i++) {
+		const char *gitcmd = main_cmds.names[i]->name;
+
+		/* match prefix */
+		if (!strncmp(cmd, gitcmd, len))
+			goto ok_expand;
+
+		if (*cmd != *gitcmd)
+			continue;
+		dst = strchr(gitcmd, '-');
+		if (!dst)
+			continue;
+
+		/* cmd is foo-bar, match foo*-bar* */
+		if (src &&
+		    !strncmp(cmd, gitcmd, src-cmd) &&
+		    !strncmp(src+1, dst+1, cmd+len-src-1))
+			goto ok_expand;
+
+		/* cmd is foobar,match f*-oobar* */
+		if (!src && !strncmp(cmd+1, dst+1, len-1))
+			goto ok_expand;
+
+		continue;
+ok_expand:
+		trace_printf("expand: %s\n", main_cmds.names[i]->name);
+		if (n != -1)
+			return NULL;
+		n = i;
+	}
+
+	if (n != -1) {
+		const char *assumed = main_cmds.names[n]->name;
+		main_cmds.names[n] = NULL;
+		clean_cmdnames(&main_cmds);
+		return assumed;
+	}
+	else
+		return NULL;
+}
+
 int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	printf("git version %s\n", git_version_string);
--<--
-- 
Duy
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  1. prepare deprecation of git-revertPierre Habouzit, Oct 31, 2008
  2. Pierre HabouzitOct 31, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 31, 2008
  4. Pierre HabouzitOct 31, 2008
  5. Theodore TsoOct 31, 2008
  6. Andreas EricssonNov 1, 2008
  7. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  8. Pierre HabouzitOct 31, 2008
  9. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2008
  12. Matthieu MoyNov 1, 2008
  13. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 2, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2008
  15. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  16. Pierre HabouzitNov 2, 2008

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