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Re: [PATCH] config: preserve <subsection> case for one-shot config on the command line

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 21, 2017, 07:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20170221073813.w4zrkky2d4drnwbs@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:58:07AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Since nothing seems to have happened in the meantime, here is what
> I'll queue so that we won't forget for now.  Lars's tests based on
> how the scripted "git submodule" uses "git config" may still be
> valid, but it is somewhat a roundabout way to demonstrate the
> breakage and not very effective way to protect the fix, so I added a
> new test that directly tests "git -c <var>=<val> <command>".
Yeah, I agree that is the best way to cover this code.
> I am not sure if this updated one is worth doing, or the previous
> "strchr and strrchr" I originally wrote was easier to understand.

I think either is OK. I would actually have written it halfway in between, like:

  static void canonicalize_config_variable_name(char *varname)
  {
          const char *p;
          /* downcase the first segment */
          for (p = varname; *p; p++) {
	          if (*p == '.')
		          break;
                  *p = tolower(*p);
	  }
          /* locate end of middle segment, if there is one */
          p = strrchr(p, '.');
          if (!p)
                  return; /* invalid single-level var, but let it pass */
          for (; *p; p++)
                  *p = tolower(*p);
  }
You can toss that on the bikeshed heap. :)

The other change from yours is that it flips the order of the strrchr and return. Yours is more efficient in the sense that we know there is no dot, so we do not have to keep searching at all (though of course this case is invalid and we would not expect to see it in practice).

But it did take me a minute in yours to figure out why last_dot was always set to a dot (the answer is that it starts at "cp", which must itself be a dot, because we would already have returned otherwise).

> One thing I noticed is that "git config --get X" will correctly
> diagnose that a dot-less X is not a valid variable name, but we do
> not seem to diagnose "git -c X=V <cmd>" as invalid.

I don't think that was intentional. We just never caught the case. It might be reasonable to do so (and it's easy to catch here while canonicalizing). I think there are probably some other cases we _could_ catch, too (e.g., invalid characters for keynames). But I'm not excited about duplicating the logic from the file-parser.

> Perhaps we should, but it is not the focus of this topic.
Definitely.
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> diff --git a/t/t1351-config-cmdline.sh b/t/t1351-config-cmdline.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..acb8dc3b15
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/t/t1351-config-cmdline.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +test_description='git -c var=val'
> +
> +. ./test-lib.sh

There are a bunch of other "git -c" tests inside t1300. I don't know if it would be better to put them all together.

Arguably, those other ones should get pulled out here to the new script. More scripts means that the tests have fewer hidden dependencies, and we can parallelize the run more. I admit I've shied away from new scripts in the past because the number allocation is such a pain.

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> +test_expect_success 'last one wins: two level vars' '
> +	echo VAL >expect &&
> +
> +	# sec.var and sec.VAR are the same variable, as the first
> +	# and the last level of a configuration variable name is
> +	# case insensitive.  Test both setting and querying.

I assume by "setting and querying" here you mean "setting via -c, querying via git-config".

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> +	git -c sec.var=val -c sec.VAR=VAL config --get sec.var >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +	git -c SEC.var=val -c sec.var=VAL config --get sec.var >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +
> +	git -c sec.var=val -c sec.VAR=VAL config --get SEC.var >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +	git -c SEC.var=val -c sec.var=VAL config --get sec.VAR >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
Looks good.
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> +test_expect_success 'last one wins: three level vars' '
> +	echo val >expect &&
> +
> +	# v.a.r and v.A.r are not the same variable, as the middle
> +	# level of a three-level configuration variable name is
> +	# case sensitive.  Test both setting and querying.
> +
> +	git -c v.a.r=val -c v.A.r=VAL config --get v.a.r >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +	git -c v.a.r=val -c v.A.r=VAL config --get V.a.R >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +
> +	echo VAL >expect &&
> +	git -c v.a.r=val -c v.a.R=VAL config --get v.a.r >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +	git -c v.a.r=val -c V.a.r=VAL config --get v.a.r >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +	git -c v.a.r=val -c v.a.R=VAL config --get V.a.R >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> +	git -c v.a.r=val -c V.a.r=VAL config --get V.a.R >actual &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'

There are two blocks of tests, each with their own "expect" value. Should the top "expect" here be moved down with its block to make that more clear?

Other than that nit, the tests look good to me.
-Peff
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Message 24 of 41 in “[BUG] submodule config does not apply to upper case submodules?”
  1. Lars SchneiderFeb 15, 2017
  2. t7400: cleanup "submodule add clone shallow submodule" testLars Schneider, Feb 15, 2017
  3. Stefan BellerFeb 15, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2017
  5. Stefan BellerFeb 15, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2017
  7. Jonathan TanFeb 15, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2017
  10. Stefan BellerFeb 15, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2017
  12. Stefan BellerFeb 15, 2017
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2017
  14. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2017
  15. Jonathan TanFeb 15, 2017
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2017
  17. config: preserve <subsection> case for one-shot config on the command lineJunio C Hamano, Feb 15, 2017
  18. Lars SchneiderFeb 16, 2017
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2017
  20. Jeff KingFeb 16, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2017
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2017
  23. Lars SchneiderFeb 20, 2017
  24. Jeff KingFeb 21, 2017
  25. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2017
  26. config: preserve <subsection> case for one-shot config on the command lineJunio C Hamano, Feb 21, 2017
  27. Jeff KingFeb 21, 2017
  28. Stefan BellerFeb 21, 2017
  29. config: reject invalid VAR in 'git -c VAR=VAL command'Junio C Hamano, Feb 21, 2017
  30. Stefan BellerFeb 21, 2017
  31. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2017
  32. config: reject invalid VAR in 'git -c VAR=VAL command'Junio C Hamano, Feb 21, 2017
  33. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2017
  34. Jeff KingFeb 23, 2017
  35. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2017
  36. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2017
  37. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2017
  38. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2017
  39. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2017
  40. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2017
  41. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2017

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