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[PATCH 5/5] versioncmp: cope with common leading parts in versionsort.prereleaseSuffix

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date
Sep 7, 2016, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20160907151251.30978-6-szeder@ira.uka.de>
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<20160907151251.30978-1-szeder@ira.uka.de>

Version sort with prerelease reordering sometimes puts tagnames in the wrong order, when the common part of two compared tagnames ends with the leading character(s) of one or more configured prerelease suffixes.

  $ git config --get-all versionsort.prereleaseSuffix
  -beta
  $ git tag -l --sort=version:refname v2.1.*
  v2.1.0-beta-2
  v2.1.0-beta-3
  v2.1.0
  v2.1.0-RC1
  v2.1.0-RC2
  v2.1.0-beta-1
  v2.1.1
  v2.1.2

The reason is that when comparing a pair of tagnames, first versioncmp() looks for the first different character in a pair of tagnames, and then the swap_prereleases() helper function checks for prerelease suffixes _starting at_ that character. Thus, when in the above example the sorting algorithm happens to compare the tagnames "v2.1.0-beta-1" and "v2.1.0-RC2", swap_prereleases() will try to match the suffix "-beta" against "beta-1" to no avail, and the two tagnames erroneously end up being ordered lexicographically.

To fix this issue change swap_prereleases() to look for configured prerelease suffixes containing that first different character.

Reported-by: Leho Kraav <leho@conversionready.com>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
---
 t/t7004-tag.sh |  4 ++--
 versioncmp.c   | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t7004-tag.sh b/t/t7004-tag.sh
index d69ac4940388..f0cfe1fa3d8b 100755
--- a/t/t7004-tag.sh
+++ b/t/t7004-tag.sh
@@ -1538,7 +1538,7 @@ test_expect_success 'reverse version sort with prerelease reordering' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'version sort with prerelease reordering and common leading character' '
+test_expect_success 'version sort with prerelease reordering and common leading character' '
 	test_config versionsort.prereleaseSuffix -beta &&
 	git tag foo1.6-after1 &&
 	git tag -l --sort=version:refname "foo*" >actual &&
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ test_expect_failure 'version sort with prerelease reordering and common leading
 
 # Capitalization of suffixes is important here, because "-RC" would normally
 # be sorted before "-beta" and the config settings should override that.
-test_expect_failure 'version sort with prerelease reordering, multiple suffixes and common leading character' '
+test_expect_success 'version sort with prerelease reordering, multiple suffixes and common leading character' '
 	test_config versionsort.prereleaseSuffix -beta &&
 	git config --add versionsort.prereleaseSuffix -RC &&
 	git tag foo1.6-RC1 &&
diff --git a/versioncmp.c b/versioncmp.c
index fed02d2a2878..87b49a622423 100644
--- a/versioncmp.c
+++ b/versioncmp.c
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ static int initialized;
 /*
  * off is the offset of the first different character in the two strings
  * s1 and s2. If either s1 or s2 contains a prerelease suffix starting
- * at that offset, it will be forced to be on top.
+ * at that offset or the character at that offset is part of a
+ * prerelease suffix, then that string will be forced to be on top.
  *
  * If both s1 and s2 contain a (different) suffix at that position, the
  * order is determined by config file.
@@ -47,10 +48,23 @@ static int swap_prereleases(const char *s1,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < prereleases->nr; i++) {
 		const char *suffix = prereleases->items[i].string;
-		if (i1 == -1 && starts_with(s1 + off, suffix))
-			i1 = i;
-		if (i2 == -1 && starts_with(s2 + off, suffix))
-			i2 = i;
+		int j, start, suffix_len = strlen(suffix);
+		if (suffix_len < off)
+			start = off - suffix_len + 1;
+		else
+			start = 0;
+		for (j = start; j <= off; j++) {
+			if (i1 == -1 && starts_with(s1 + j, suffix)) {
+				i1 = i;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		for (j = start; j <= off; j++) {
+			if (i2 == -1 && starts_with(s2 + j, suffix)) {
+				i2 = i;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	if (i1 == -1 && i2 == -1)
 		return 0;
-- 
2.10.0.74.g6632b1b
Previous: SZEDER GáborNext: SZEDER Gábor
Message 14 of 40 in “2.10.0: multiple versionsort.prereleasesuffix buggy?”
  1. Leho Kraav (Conversion Ready)Sep 5, 2016
  2. Jeff KingSep 5, 2016
  3. SZEDER GáborSep 6, 2016
  4. Jeff KingSep 6, 2016
  5. SZEDER GáborSep 6, 2016
  6. 0/5 Fix version sort prerelease reordering bugSZEDER Gábor, Sep 7, 2016
  7. 1/5 t7004-tag: delete unnecessary tags with test_when_finishedSZEDER Gábor, Sep 7, 2016
  8. 2/5 t7004-tag: use test_config helperSZEDER Gábor, Sep 7, 2016
  9. 4/5 versioncmp: pass full tagnames to swap_prereleases()SZEDER Gábor, Sep 7, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2016
  11. SZEDER GáborSep 8, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2016
  13. 3/5 t7004-tag: add version sort tests to show prerelease reordering issuesSZEDER Gábor, Sep 7, 2016
  14. 5/5 versioncmp: cope with common leading parts in versionsort.prereleaseSuffixSZEDER Gábor, Sep 7, 2016
  15. SZEDER GáborSep 7, 2016
  16. Duy NguyenSep 9, 2016
  17. SZEDER GáborOct 5, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2016
  19. SZEDER GáborOct 5, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2016
  21. Jacob KellerOct 6, 2016
  22. Duy NguyenOct 6, 2016
  23. 0/7 Fix and generalize version sort reorderingSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  24. 1/7 t7004-tag: delete unnecessary tags with test_when_finishedSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  25. 3/7 t7004-tag: add version sort tests to show prerelease reordering issuesSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  26. 5/7 versioncmp: cope with common part overlapping with prerelease suffixSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2016
  28. SZEDER GáborDec 13, 2016
  29. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  30. 7/7 versioncmp: generalize version sort suffix reorderingSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  31. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2016
  32. 6/7 versioncmp: use earliest-longest contained suffix to determine sorting orderSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  33. 5/7 squash! versioncmp: use earliest-longest contained suffix to determine sorting orderSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  34. 2/7 t7004-tag: use test_config helperSZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  35. 4/7 versioncmp: pass full tagnames to swap_prereleases()SZEDER Gábor, Dec 8, 2016
  36. Jeff KingDec 14, 2016
  37. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2016
  38. SZEDER GáborDec 20, 2016
  39. Jeff KingDec 20, 2016
  40. Leho Kraav (Conversion Ready)Sep 6, 2016

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