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[PATCH] hooks: add sendemail-validate-series

From
Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
Date
Jan 3, 2023, 23:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20230103231133.64050-1-robin@jarry.cc>

When sending patch series (with a cover-letter or not) sendemail-validate is called with every email/patch file independently from the others. When the one of the patches depend on a previous one to apply, it may not be possible to use this hook in a meaningful way.

Changing sendemail-validate to take all patches as arguments would break backward compatibility.

Add a new hook to allow validating patch series instead of patch by patch. The patch files are provided in the hook script standard input.

git hook run cannot be used since it closes the hook standard input. Run the hook directly.

Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |  1 +
 Documentation/githooks.txt       | 17 +++++++++++++
 git-send-email.perl              | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 765b2df8530d..45113b928593 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
 +
 --
 		*	Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
+		*	Invoke the sendemail-validate-series hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
 		*	Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
 			998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding
 			('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used;
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index a16e62bc8c8e..e2dc0b49eda5 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -588,6 +588,23 @@ the name of the file that holds the e-mail to be sent.  Exiting with a
 non-zero status causes `git send-email` to abort before sending any
 e-mails.
 
+sendemail-validate-series
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-send-email[1].  It allows performing
+validation on a complete patch series at once, instead of patch by patch with
+`sendemail-validate`.
+
+`sendemail-validate-series` takes no arguments, but for each e-mail to be sent
+it receives on standard input a line of the format:
+
+  <patch-file> LF
+
+where `<patch-file>` is a name of a file that holds an e-mail to be sent,
+
+If the hook exits with non-zero status, `git send-email` will abort before
+sending any e-mails.
+
 fsmonitor-watchman
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 5861e99a6eb2..30bce599b565 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ sub is_format_patch_arg {
 			validate_patch($f, $target_xfer_encoding);
 		}
 	}
+	validate_patch_series(@files)
 }
 
 if (@files) {
@@ -2118,6 +2119,47 @@ sub validate_patch {
 	return;
 }
 
+sub validate_patch_series {
+	my @files = @_;
+
+	unless ($repo) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	my $hook_name = 'sendemail-validate-series';
+	my $hooks_path = $repo->command_oneline('rev-parse', '--git-path', 'hooks');
+	require File::Spec;
+	my $validate_hook = File::Spec->catfile($hooks_path, $hook_name);
+	my $hook_error;
+	unless (-x $validate_hook) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	# The hook needs a correct cwd and GIT_DIR.
+	require Cwd;
+	my $cwd_save = Cwd::getcwd();
+	chdir($repo->wc_path() or $repo->repo_path()) or die("chdir: $!");
+	local $ENV{"GIT_DIR"} = $repo->repo_path();
+	# cannot use git hook run, it closes stdin before forking the hook
+	open(my $stdin, "|-", $validate_hook) or die("fork: $!");
+	chdir($cwd_save) or die("chdir: $!");
+	for my $fn (@files) {
+		unless (-p $fn) {
+			$fn = Cwd::abs_path($fn);
+			$stdin->print("$fn\n");
+		}
+	}
+	close($stdin); # calls waitpid
+	if ($? & 0x7f) {
+		my $sig = $? & 0x7f;
+		die("fatal: hook $hook_name killed by signal $sig")
+	} elsif ($? >> 8) {
+		my $err = $? >> 8;
+		die("fatal: hook $hook_name rejected patch series (exit code $err)")
+	}
+	return;
+}
+
 sub handle_backup {
 	my ($last, $lastlen, $file, $known_suffix) = @_;
 	my ($suffix, $skip);
-- 
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