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[PATCH v2] hooks: add sendemail-validate-series

From
Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
Date
Apr 5, 2023, 23:13 UTC
Message-ID
<20230405231305.96996-1-robin@jarry.cc>
In-Reply-To
<20230402185635.302653-1-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 one of the patches depends on a previous one, 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, one per line. Patch file names that contain LF characters are *not* validated.

Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
---
Notes:
    v1 -> v2:
    
    - Use `git hook run --to-stdin` with a temp file.
    - Skip validation (with an explicit warning) for patch file names that
      contain newline characters.
    - Updated docs.
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |  1 +
 Documentation/githooks.txt       | 19 +++++++++++++++++
 git-send-email.perl              | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 56 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 62908602e7be..0e8573c6c116 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -600,6 +600,25 @@ 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.  For each e-mail to be sent,
+it receives on standard input a line of the format:
+
+  <patch-file> LF
+
+where '<patch-file>' is an absolute path to a file that holds an e-mail to be
+sent.  Any '<patch-file>' that contains a 'LF' character will *not* be fed to
+the hook and an explicit warning will be printed instead.
+
+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 07f2a0cbeaad..b29050e14c06 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ sub is_format_patch_arg {
 			validate_patch($f, $target_xfer_encoding);
 		}
 	}
+	validate_patch_series(@files)
 }
 
 if (@files) {
@@ -2125,6 +2126,41 @@ sub validate_patch {
 	return;
 }
 
+sub validate_patch_series {
+	my @files = @_;
+
+	unless ($repo) {
+		return;
+	}
+	require File::Temp;
+	my $tmp = File::Temp->new(
+		TEMPLATE => "sendemail-series.XXXXXXXX",
+		UNLINK => 1,
+	);
+	for my $fn (@files) {
+		unless (-p $fn) {
+			$fn = Cwd::abs_path($fn);
+			if ($fn =~ /\n/) {
+				$fn =~ s/\n/'\\n'/g;
+				printf STDERR __("warning: file name contains '\\n': %s. Skipping validation.\n"), $fn;
+			} else {
+				$tmp->print("$fn\n");
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	my $hook_name = "sendemail-validate-series";
+	my @cmd = ("git", "hook", "run", "--ignore-missing",
+		   "--to-stdin", $tmp->filename, $hook_name, "--");
+	my $hook_error = system_or_msg(\@cmd, undef, "@cmd");
+	if ($hook_error) {
+		$hook_error = sprintf(
+		    __("fatal: series rejected by %s hook\n%s\nwarning: no patches were sent\n"),
+		    $hook_name, $hook_error);
+		die $hook_error;
+	}
+	return;
+}
+
 sub handle_backup {
 	my ($last, $lastlen, $file, $known_suffix) = @_;
 	my ($suffix, $skip);
-- 
2.40.0
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  1. hooks: add sendemail-validate-seriesRobin Jarry, Apr 2, 2023
  2. Eric SunshineApr 3, 2023
  3. Phillip WoodApr 3, 2023
  4. Robin JarryApr 3, 2023
  5. Phillip WoodApr 3, 2023
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2023
  7. Robin JarryApr 3, 2023
  8. Robin JarryApr 3, 2023
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2023
  10. Robin JarryApr 3, 2023
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2023
  12. Robin JarryApr 5, 2023
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2023
  14. hooks: add sendemail-validate-seriesRobin Jarry, Apr 5, 2023
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 6, 2023
  16. Phillip WoodApr 11, 2023
  17. Robin JarryApr 11, 2023
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