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[PATCH v4] rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable piping

From
Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date
Jun 18, 2019, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID
<20190618222917.261701-1-emilyshaffer@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20190614234855.257318-1-emilyshaffer@google.com>

Allow easier parsing by cat-file by giving rev-list an option to print only the OID of a non-commit object without any additional information. This is a short-term shim; later on, rev-list should be taught how to print the types of objects it finds in a format similar to cat-file's.

Before this commit, the output from rev-list needed to be massaged before being piped to cat-file, like so:

  git rev-list --objects HEAD | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |
    git cat-file --batch-check

This was especially unexpected when dealing with root trees, as an invisible whitespace exists at the end of the OID:

  git rev-list --objects --filter=tree:1 --max-count=1 HEAD |
    xargs -I% echo "AA%AA"
Now, it can be piped directly, as in the added test case:
  git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Change-Id: I489bdf0a8215532e540175188883ff7541d70e1b
---
Since v3, added a corresponding "--object-names" arg to pair with
"--no-object-names", and "last-one-wins" logic. Also added a test to
validate this new arg and the logic.

I did not take Junio's suggestion of naming the arg "show_object_names" as "arg_show_object_names" better matches the existing style of builtin/revlist.c.

In adding the test, I noticed that I had left in a test about --oid-only that doesn't apply after the changes from v2->v3; that test is removed.

 - Emily
 builtin/rev-list.c       | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/rev-list.c b/builtin/rev-list.c
index 660172b014..301ccb970b 100644
--- a/builtin/rev-list.c
+++ b/builtin/rev-list.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static const char rev_list_usage[] =
 "    --objects | --objects-edge\n"
 "    --unpacked\n"
 "    --header | --pretty\n"
+"    --[no-]object-names\n"
 "    --abbrev=<n> | --no-abbrev\n"
 "    --abbrev-commit\n"
 "    --left-right\n"
@@ -75,6 +76,9 @@ enum missing_action {
 };
 static enum missing_action arg_missing_action;
 
+/* display only the oid of each object encountered */
+static int arg_show_object_names = 1;
+
 #define DEFAULT_OIDSET_SIZE     (16*1024)
 
 static void finish_commit(struct commit *commit);
@@ -255,7 +259,10 @@ static void show_object(struct object *obj, const char *name, void *cb_data)
 	display_progress(progress, ++progress_counter);
 	if (info->flags & REV_LIST_QUIET)
 		return;
-	show_object_with_name(stdout, obj, name);
+	if (arg_show_object_names)
+		show_object_with_name(stdout, obj, name);
+	else
+		printf("%s\n", oid_to_hex(&obj->oid));
 }
 
 static void show_edge(struct commit *commit)
@@ -484,6 +491,16 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		if (skip_prefix(arg, "--missing=", &arg))
 			continue; /* already handled above */
 
+		if (!strcmp(arg, ("--no-object-names"))) {
+			arg_show_object_names = 0;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (!strcmp(arg, ("--object-names"))) {
+			arg_show_object_names = 1;
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		usage(rev_list_usage);
 
 	}
diff --git a/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh b/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
index 0507999729..52a9e38d66 100755
--- a/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
+++ b/t/t6000-rev-list-misc.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,26 @@ test_expect_success 'rev-list --objects with pathspecs and copied files' '
 	! grep one output
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rev-list --objects --no-object-names has no space/names' '
+	git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD >output &&
+	! grep wanted_file output &&
+	! grep unwanted_file output &&
+	! grep " " output
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rev-list --objects --no-object-names works with cat-file' '
+	git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --all >list-output &&
+	git cat-file --batch-check <list-output >cat-output &&
+	! grep missing cat-output
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--no-object-names and --object-names are last-one-wins' '
+	git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --object-names --all >output &&
+	grep wanted_file output &&
+	git rev-list --objects --object-names --no-object-names --all >output &&
+	! grep wanted_file output
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'rev-list A..B and rev-list ^A B are the same' '
 	git commit --allow-empty -m another &&
 	git tag -a -m "annotated" v1.0 &&
-- 
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
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  1. revision: remove stray whitespace when name emptyEmily Shaffer, Jun 7, 2019
  2. Eric SunshineJun 8, 2019
  3. Emily ShafferJun 12, 2019
  4. Jeff KingJun 9, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2019
  6. Emily ShafferJun 12, 2019
  7. Jeff KingJun 13, 2019
  8. rev-list: teach --oid-only to enable pipingEmily Shaffer, Jun 13, 2019
  9. Jeff KingJun 14, 2019
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2019
  11. Emily ShafferJun 14, 2019
  12. Emily ShafferJun 14, 2019
  13. Jeff KingJun 19, 2019
  14. rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable pipingEmily Shaffer, Jun 14, 2019
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2019
  16. Emily ShafferJun 18, 2019
  17. rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable pipingEmily Shaffer, Jun 18, 2019
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2019
  19. Emily ShafferJun 19, 2019
  20. Jeff KingJun 19, 2019
  21. rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable pipingEmily Shaffer, Jun 19, 2019
  22. Jeff KingJun 19, 2019

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