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Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 11, 2016, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20160111214846.GC21131@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:26:20PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
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> diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
> index 4229cae..5efe9bb 100644
> --- a/builtin/grep.c
> +++ b/builtin/grep.c
> @@ -755,9 +755,20 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  			     PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
>  	grep_commit_pattern_type(pattern_type_arg, &opt);
>  
> -	if (use_index && !startup_info->have_repository)
> -		/* die the same way as if we did it at the beginning */
> -		setup_git_directory();
> +	if (use_index && !startup_info->have_repository) {
> +		int fallback = 0;
> +		git_config_get_bool("grep.fallbacktonoindex", &fallback);
> +		if (fallback) {
> +			int nongit = 0;
> +
> +			setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
> +			if (nongit)
> +				use_index = 0;
> +		} else {
> +			/* die the same way as if we did it at the beginning */
> +			setup_git_directory();
> +		}
> +	}

Hmm. We used to have problems accessing config before calling setup_git_directory(). I am not sure if that is still the case, though.

I guess the startup sequence is muddied here, though. cmd_grep() is marked as RUN_SETUP_GENTLY, so we would have already run setup, and here we are following the "we are not in a repository" code path (i.e., we saw "!startup_info->have_repository").

And the existing setup_git_directory() is just there to die(), as the comment explains. So what is the new setup_git_directory_gently() doing? We know we've already done setup, and that we're not in a git repo, right? Shouldn't we just be able to set use_index to 0 and keep going? Under what circumstances would it _not_ return "nongit == 1"?

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> @@ -874,12 +885,14 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  		setup_pager();
>  
>  	if (!use_index && (untracked || cached))
> -		die(_("--cached or --untracked cannot be used with --no-index."));
> +		die(_("--cached or --untracked cannot be used with --no-index "
> +		      "or outside of a git repository"));

I'm lukewarm on this (and the other) change. What you've written is technically correct, but it's getting rather verbose. We've presented the option already as "turn on --no-index by default outside a repository", so I'm not sure we need to clarify it here. Since it's a feature people must turn on manually, presumably they would know that.

I don't know, maybe it would help somebody. I'm not strongly opposed.
-Peff
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Message 26 of 32 in “Implicitly use --no-index if git grep is used outside of repo”
  1. 0/3 Implicitly use --no-index if git grep is used outside of repoThomas Gummerer, Jan 10, 2016
  2. 1/3 t7810: correct --no-index testThomas Gummerer, Jan 10, 2016
  3. 2/3 builtin/grep: rename use_index to no_indexThomas Gummerer, Jan 10, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2016
  5. 3/3 builtin/grep: allow implicit --no-indexThomas Gummerer, Jan 10, 2016
  6. Duy NguyenJan 11, 2016
  7. Thomas GummererJan 11, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2016
  9. Thomas GummererJan 11, 2016
  10. Jeff KingJan 11, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2016
  12. Eric SunshineJan 11, 2016
  13. Thomas GummererJan 11, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2016
  15. Thomas GummererJan 11, 2016
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2016
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2016
  18. Thomas GummererJan 11, 2016
  19. 0/3 Introduce a --use-index command line argument in git grepThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  20. 1/3 t7810: correct --no-index testThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  21. 2/3 builtin/grep: rename use_index to no_indexThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  22. 3/3 builtin/grep: introduce --use-index argumentThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  23. 0/2 grep: add fallbackToNoIndex config optionThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  24. 1/2 t7810: correct --no-index testThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  25. 2/2 builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex configThomas Gummerer, Jan 11, 2016
  26. Jeff KingJan 11, 2016
  27. Thomas GummererJan 11, 2016
  28. 0/2 grep: add fallbackToNoIndex config optionThomas Gummerer, Jan 12, 2016
  29. 1/2 t7810: correct --no-index testThomas Gummerer, Jan 12, 2016
  30. 2/2 builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex configThomas Gummerer, Jan 12, 2016
  31. Jeff KingJan 12, 2016
  32. Thomas GummererJan 12, 2016

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