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[PATCH 3/4] Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 13, 2017, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20171013172431.7v6voqt2qd6suhno@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20171013172020.adc2fkddgp3g2ses@sigill.intra.peff.net>
This reverts commit 136c8c8b8fa39f1315713248473dececf20f8fe7.

That commit was trying to address a bug caused by 4c7f1819b3 (make color.ui default to 'auto', 2013-06-10), in which plumbing like diff-tree defaulted to "auto" color, but did not respect a "color.ui" directive to disable it.

But it also meant that we started respecting "color.ui" set to "always". This was a known problem, but 4c7f1819b3 argued that nobody ought to be doing that. However, that turned out to be wrong, and we got a number of bug reports related to "add -p" regressing in v2.14.2.

Let's revert 136c8c8b8, fixing the regression to "add -p". This leaves the problem from 4c7f1819b3 unfixed, but:

  1. It's a pretty obscure problem in the first place. I
     only noticed it while working on the color code, and we
     haven't got a single bug report or complaint about it.
  2. We can make a more moderate fix on top by respecting
     "never" but not "always" for plumbing commands. This
     is just the minimal fix to go back to the working state
     we had before v2.14.2.

Note that this isn't a pure revert. We now have a test in t3701 which shows off the "add -p" regression. This can be flipped to success.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/branch.c           | 2 +-
 builtin/clean.c            | 3 ++-
 builtin/grep.c             | 2 +-
 builtin/show-branch.c      | 2 +-
 color.c                    | 8 ++++++++
 config.c                   | 4 ----
 diff.c                     | 3 +++
 t/t3701-add-interactive.sh | 2 +-
 8 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index b67593288c..79dc9181fd 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int git_branch_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 			return config_error_nonbool(var);
 		return color_parse(value, branch_colors[slot]);
 	}
-	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
+	return git_color_default_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
 static const char *branch_get_color(enum color_branch ix)
diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
index 733b6d3745..189e20628c 100644
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ static int git_clean_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
+	/* inspect the color.ui config variable and others */
+	return git_color_default_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
 static const char *clean_get_color(enum color_clean ix)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 19e23946ac..2d65f27d01 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static int wait_all(void)
 static int grep_cmd_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
 	int st = grep_config(var, value, cb);
-	if (git_default_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
+	if (git_color_default_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
 		st = -1;
 
 	if (!strcmp(var, "grep.threads")) {
diff --git a/builtin/show-branch.c b/builtin/show-branch.c
index 84547d6fba..6fa1f62a88 100644
--- a/builtin/show-branch.c
+++ b/builtin/show-branch.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static int git_show_branch_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
+	return git_color_default_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
 static int omit_in_dense(struct commit *commit, struct commit **rev, int n)
diff --git a/color.c b/color.c
index 9ccd954d6b..9a9261ac16 100644
--- a/color.c
+++ b/color.c
@@ -368,6 +368,14 @@ int git_color_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int git_color_default_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
+{
+	if (git_color_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
+}
+
 void color_print_strbuf(FILE *fp, const char *color, const struct strbuf *sb)
 {
 	if (*color)
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 4831c12735..adb7d7a3e5 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 #include "string-list.h"
 #include "utf8.h"
 #include "dir.h"
-#include "color.h"
 
 struct config_source {
 	struct config_source *prev;
@@ -1351,9 +1350,6 @@ int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *dummy)
 	if (starts_with(var, "advice."))
 		return git_default_advice_config(var, value);
 
-	if (git_color_config(var, value, dummy) < 0)
-		return -1;
-
 	if (!strcmp(var, "pager.color") || !strcmp(var, "color.pager")) {
 		pager_use_color = git_config_bool(var,value);
 		return 0;
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 69f03570ad..30b2e271b0 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -358,6 +358,9 @@ int git_diff_ui_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (git_color_config(var, value, cb) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
 	return git_diff_basic_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
index 87ffd4d43c..a49c12c79b 100755
--- a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
+++ b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ test_expect_success 'hunk-editing handles custom comment char' '
 	git diff --exit-code
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'add -p works even with color.ui=always' '
+test_expect_success 'add -p works even with color.ui=always' '
 	git reset --hard &&
 	echo change >>file &&
 	test_config color.ui always &&
-- 
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  1. Nazri RamliyOct 9, 2017
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2017
  3. Nazri RamliyOct 10, 2017
  4. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2017
  5. Nazri RamliyOct 10, 2017
  6. Jeff KingOct 10, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2017
  8. Jeff KingOct 10, 2017
  9. Jonathan NiederOct 10, 2017
  10. Jeff KingOct 10, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2017
  12. 0/2 Piling more kludge on top of color.uiJunio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2017
  13. 2/2 color: discourage use of ui.color=alwaysJunio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2017
  14. Jonathan NiederOct 12, 2017
  15. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2017
  17. 1/2 color: downgrade "always" to "auto" only for on-disk configurationJunio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2017
  18. Jonathan NiederOct 12, 2017
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2017
  20. Jonathan NiederOct 12, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2017
  22. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2017
  23. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  24. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  25. Jeff KingOct 12, 2017
  26. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2017
  27. Jeff KingOct 13, 2017
  28. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2017
  29. Jeff KingOct 13, 2017
  30. 0/4 peeling back color.ui=always hacksJeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  31. 1/4 Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"Jeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  32. 2/4 Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests"Jeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  33. 3/4 Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"Jeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  34. 4/4 tag: respect color.ui configJeff King, Oct 13, 2017
  35. Junio C HamanoOct 14, 2017
  36. Jeff KingOct 16, 2017
  37. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2017
  38. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2017
  39. Jeff KingOct 18, 2017
  40. Junio C HamanoOct 18, 2017
  41. Jonathan NiederOct 17, 2017
  42. Jeff KingOct 18, 2017

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