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Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] bugreport: collect list of populated hooks

From
Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2019, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20191211205114.GD107889@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1910281522200.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:31:36PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi Emily,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> 
> > Occasionally a failure a user is seeing may be related to a specific
> > hook which is being run, perhaps without the user realizing. While the
> > contents of hooks can be sensitive - containing user data or process
> > information specific to the user's organization - simply knowing that a
> > hook is being run at a certain stage can help us to understand whether
> > something is going wrong.
> >
> > Without a definitive list of hook names within the code, we compile our
> > own list from the documentation. This is likely prone to bitrot. To
> > reduce the amount of code humans need to read, we turn the list into a
> > string_list and iterate over it (as we are calling the same find_hook
> > operation on each string). However, since bugreport should primarily be
> > called by the user, the performance loss from massaging the string
> > seems acceptable.
> 
> Good idea!
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
> > ---
> >  bugreport.c         | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  bugreport.h         |  6 ++++++
> >  builtin/bugreport.c |  4 ++++
> >  3 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/bugreport.c b/bugreport.c
> > index afa4836ab1..9d7f44ff28 100644
> > --- a/bugreport.c
> > +++ b/bugreport.c
> > @@ -103,3 +103,47 @@ void get_whitelisted_config(struct strbuf *config_info)
> >  	strbuf_reset(config_info);
> >  	strbuf_addbuf(config_info, &configs_and_values);
> >  }
> > +
> > +void get_populated_hooks(struct strbuf *hook_info)
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Doesn't look like there is a list of all possible hooks; so below is
> > +	 * a transcription of `git help hook`.
> > +	 */
> > +	const char *hooks = "applypatch-msg,"
> > +			    "pre-applypatch,"
> > +			    "post-applypatch,"
> > +			    "pre-commit,"
> > +			    "pre-merge-commit,"
> > +			    "prepare-commit-msg,"
> > +			    "commit-msg,"
> > +			    "post-commit,"
> > +			    "pre-rebase,"
> > +			    "post-checkout,"
> > +			    "post-merge,"
> > +			    "pre-push,"
> > +			    "pre-receive,"
> > +			    "update,"
> > +			    "post-receive,"
> > +			    "post-update,"
> > +			    "push-to-checkout,"
> > +			    "pre-auto-gc,"
> > +			    "post-rewrite,"
> > +			    "sendemail-validate,"
> > +			    "fsmonitor-watchman,"
> > +			    "p4-pre-submit,"
> > +			    "post-index-changex";
> 
> Well, this is disappointing: I tried to come up with a scripted way to
> extract the commit names from our source code, and I failed! This is
> where I gave up:
> 
> 	git grep run_hook |
> 	sed -n 's/.*run_hook[^(]*([^,]*, *\([^,]*\).*/\1/p' |
> 	sed -e '/^name$/d' -e '/^const char \*name$/d' \
> 		-e 's/push_to_checkout_hook/"push-to-checkout"/' |
> 	sort |
> 	uniq
> 
> This prints only the following hook names:
> 
> 	"applypatch-msg"
> 	"post-applypatch"
> 	"post-checkout"
> 	"post-index-change"
> 	"post-merge"
> 	"pre-applypatch"
> 	"pre-auto-gc"
> 	"pre-rebase"
> 	"prepare-commit-msg"
> 	"push-to-checkout"
> 
> But at least it was easy to script the extracting from the
> Documentation:
> 
> 	sed -n '/^[a-z]/{N;/\n~~~/{s/\n.*//;p}}' \
> 		Documentation/githooks.txt
> 

To be totally frank, I'm not keen on spending a lot of time with scripting this. My parallel work with config-based hooks will also involve an in-code source of truth for available hooknames; I'd like to punt on some scripting, putting it in the makefile, etc blah since I know I'm planning to fix this particular annoyance at the source - and since it looks like bugreport will stay in the review phase for at least a little longer.

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> > +	struct string_list hooks_list = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
> > +	struct string_list_item *iter = NULL;
> > +
> > +	strbuf_reset(hook_info);
> > +
> > +	string_list_split(&hooks_list, hooks, ',', -1);
> > +
> > +	for_each_string_list_item(iter, &hooks_list) {
> 
> This should definitely be done at compile time, I think. We should be
> able to generate an appropriate header via something like this:
> 
> 	cat >hook-names.h <<-EOF
> 	static const char *hook_names[] = {
> 	$(sed -n '/^[a-z]/{N;/\n~~~/{s/\n.*/",/;s/^/	"/;p}}' \
> 		Documentation/githooks.txt)
> 	};
> 	EOF
> 
> Then you would use a simple `for()` loop using `ARRAY_SIZE()` to
> iterate over the hook names.
> 
> > +		if (find_hook(iter->string)) {
> > +			strbuf_addstr(hook_info, iter->string);
> > +			strbuf_complete_line(hook_info);
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +}
> > diff --git a/bugreport.h b/bugreport.h
> > index 7413e7e1be..942a5436e3 100644
> > --- a/bugreport.h
> > +++ b/bugreport.h
> > @@ -12,3 +12,9 @@ void get_system_info(struct strbuf *sys_info);
> >   * config_info will be discarded.
> >   */
> >  void get_whitelisted_config(struct strbuf *sys_info);
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * Adds the paths to all configured hooks (but not their contents). The previous
> > + * contents of hook_info will be discarded.
> > + */
> > +void get_populated_hooks(struct strbuf *hook_info);
> > diff --git a/builtin/bugreport.c b/builtin/bugreport.c
> > index 70fe0d2b85..a0eefba498 100644
> > --- a/builtin/bugreport.c
> > +++ b/builtin/bugreport.c
> > @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ int cmd_bugreport(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >  	get_whitelisted_config(&buffer);
> >  	strbuf_write(&buffer, report);
> >
> > +	add_header(report, "Populated Hooks");
> 
> Wait! I should have stumbled over this in an earlier patch. The
> `add_header()` function should not take a `FILE *` parameter at all, but
> instead an `struct strbuf *` one!
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
> 
> > +	get_populated_hooks(&buffer);
> > +	strbuf_write(&buffer, report);
> > +
> >  	fclose(report);
> >
> >  	launch_editor(report_path.buf, NULL, NULL);
> > --
> > 2.24.0.rc0.303.g954a862665-goog
> >
> >
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  17. 0/2 add git-bugreport toolEmily Shaffer, Aug 17, 2019
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  20. Emily ShafferAug 21, 2019
  21. 1/2 bugreport: add tool to generate debugging infoEmily Shaffer, Aug 17, 2019
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  23. 1/9 bugreport: add tool to generate debugging infoEmily Shaffer, Oct 25, 2019
  24. Josh SteadmonOct 29, 2019
  25. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2019
  26. Emily ShafferNov 19, 2019
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  30. Johannes SchindelinNov 19, 2019
  31. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2019
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  45. Johannes SchindelinDec 15, 2019
  46. Josh SteadmonOct 29, 2019
  47. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2019
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