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[PATCH] git-gui: fix commit message comment line removal with older Tcl versions

From
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2021, 23:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20210228231110.24076-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com>
In-Reply-To
<https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cT-sfgMDi9-6AEKF85NtOiXeqddJjk-pYuhDtTVAE-UEw@mail.gmail.com/>

git-gui was recently enhanced to remove comment lines from the commit message similar to the way git-commit does so (see `core.commentchar` and `git-stripspace`). Unfortunately, that change employs features which are unavailable in older versions of Tcl, such as 8.5.9 which is shipped with macOS (10.13), with the result that the commit operation errors out.

There are two problems. First, to add a new informational message to the main window, it invokes string method `cat` which does not exist in older Tcl. Fix this by using `append` instead.

Second, when passing the commit message through git-stripspace, it closes the "write" side of the bidirectional pipe after sending the commit message to git-stripspace in order to avoid deadlock before reading back the result, however the ability to close only one end of a pipe is not present in older Tcl. Fix this by employing a temporary file to received the output of git-stripspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
---

I'm not a Tcl programmer, so I may have overlooked better or more idiomatic ways to fix these problems. There might be some reliable and portable way to write and read a bidirectional pipe in older Tcl without deadlocking and without using non-blocking I/O and an event-loop, but I didn't find it, so I went with the simpler approach of using a temporary file.

 git-gui.sh     |  3 +--
 lib/commit.tcl | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 236bc4e61d..c04b37b9ee 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -3439,8 +3439,7 @@ proc trace_commit_type {varname args} {
 	}
 
 	set comment_char [get_config core.commentchar]
-	set txt [string cat $txt \
-				 [mc " (Lines starting with '$comment_char' will be ignored)"]]
+	append txt [mc " (Lines starting with '$comment_char' will be ignored)"]
 	$ui_coml conf -text $txt
 }
 trace add variable commit_type write trace_commit_type
diff --git a/lib/commit.tcl b/lib/commit.tcl
index 23d67d4651..3a51e80b8a 100644
--- a/lib/commit.tcl
+++ b/lib/commit.tcl
@@ -142,16 +142,18 @@ proc setup_commit_encoding {msg_wt {quiet 0}} {
 }
 
 proc strip_msg {msg} {
-	set cmd [concat [list | ] [_git_cmd stripspace] --strip-comments]
+	set strip_p [gitdir GITGUI_EDITMSG_STRIP]
+	set cmd [concat [list | ] [_git_cmd stripspace] --strip-comments [list >$strip_p]]
 	_trace_exec $cmd
-	set fd [open $cmd r+]
+	set fd [open $cmd w]
 	fconfigure $fd -translation binary -encoding utf-8
-
 	puts -nonewline $fd $msg
-	close $fd w
-	set result [read $fd]
 	close $fd
 
+	set fd [open $strip_p r]
+	set result [read $fd]
+	close $fd
+	file delete $strip_p
 	return $result
 }
 
-- 
2.31.0.rc0.1.g37593106bf
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