[PATCH v2 4/4] Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
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- Apr 16, 2025, 12:16 UTC
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The "cmd-list.perl" script is used to extract the list of commands part of a specific category and extracts the description of each command from its respective manpage. The generated output is then included in git(1) to list all Git commands.
The script is written in Perl. Refactor it to use shell scripting exclusively so that we can get rid of the mandatory dependency on Perl to build our documentation.
The converted script is slower compared to its Perl implementation. But by being careful and not spawning external commands in `format_one ()` we can mitigate the performance hit to a reasonable level:
Benchmark 1: Perl
Time (mean ± σ): 10.3 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 7.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 10.0 ms … 11.1 ms 200 runs Benchmark 2: Shell
Time (mean ± σ): 74.4 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 48.6 ms, System: 24.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 73.1 ms … 75.5 ms 200 runs Summary
Perl ran
7.23 ± 0.13 times faster than ShellWhile a sevenfold slowdown is significant, the benefit of not requiring Perl for a fully-functioning Git installation outweighs waiting a couple of milliseconds longer during the build process.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> --- Documentation/Makefile | 4 +- Documentation/cmd-list.perl | 80 ---------------------------------- Documentation/cmd-list.sh | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/meson.build | 4 +- meson.build | 2 +- 5 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 6485d40f620..b109d25e9c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -317,8 +317,8 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.adoc \ $(cmds_txt): cmd-list.made -cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) - $(QUIET_GEN)$(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl .. . $(cmds_txt) && \ +cmd-list.made: cmd-list.sh ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) + $(QUIET_GEN)$(SHELL_PATH) ./cmd-list.sh .. . $(cmds_txt) && \ date >$@ mergetools-%.adoc: generate-mergetool-list.sh ../git-mergetool--lib.sh $(wildcard ../mergetools/*) diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl deleted file mode 100755 index 0a0c1b3f611..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/perl -w - -use File::Compare qw(compare); - -sub format_one { - my ($source_dir, $out, $nameattr) = @_; - my ($name, $attr) = @$nameattr; - my ($path) = "$source_dir/Documentation/$name.adoc"; - my ($state, $description); - my $mansection; - $state = 0; - open I, '<', "$path" or die "No such file $path.adoc"; - while (<I>) { - if (/^(?:git|scalar)[a-z0-9-]*\(([0-9])\)$/) { - $mansection = $1; - next; - } - if (/^NAME$/) { - $state = 1; - next; - } - if ($state == 1 && /^----$/) { - $state = 2; - next; - } - next if ($state != 2); - chomp; - $description = $_; - last; - } - close I; - if (!defined $description) { - die "No description found in $path.adoc"; - } - if (my ($verify_name, $text) = ($description =~ /^($name) - (.*)/)) { - print $out "linkgit:$name\[$mansection\]::\n\t"; - if ($attr =~ / deprecated /) { - print $out "(deprecated) "; - } - print $out "$text.\n\n"; - } - else { - die "Description does not match $name: $description"; - } -} - -my ($source_dir, $build_dir, @categories) = @ARGV; - -open IN, "<$source_dir/command-list.txt"; -while (<IN>) { - last if /^### command list/; -} - -my %cmds = (); -for (sort <IN>) { - next if /^#/; - - chomp; - my ($name, $cat, $attr) = /^(\S+)\s+(.*?)(?:\s+(.*))?$/; - $attr = '' unless defined $attr; - push @{$cmds{$cat}}, [$name, " $attr "]; -} -close IN; - -for my $out (@categories) { - my ($cat) = $out =~ /^cmds-(.*)\.adoc$/; - my ($path) = "$build_dir/$out"; - open O, '>', "$path+" or die "Cannot open output file $out+"; - for (@{$cmds{$cat}}) { - format_one($source_dir, \*O, $_); - } - close O; - - if (-f "$path" && compare("$path", "$path+") == 0) { - unlink "$path+"; - } - else { - rename "$path+", "$path"; - } -} diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.sh b/Documentation/cmd-list.sh new file mode 100755 index 00000000000..077def3b721 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.sh @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +format_one () { + source_dir="$1" + command="$2" + attributes="$3" + + path="$source_dir/Documentation/$command.adoc" + if ! test -f "$path" + then + echo >&2 "No such file $path" + exit 1 + fi + + state=0 + while read line + do + case "$state" in + 0) + case "$line" in + git*\(*\)|scalar*\(*\)) + mansection="${line##*\(}" + mansection="${mansection%\)}" + ;; + NAME) + state=1;; + esac + ;; + 1) + if test "$line" = "----" + then + state=2 + fi + ;; + 2) + description="$line" + break + ;; + esac + done <"$path" + + if test -z "$mansection" + then + echo "No man section found in $path" >&2 + exit 1 + fi + + if test -z "$description" + then + echo >&2 "No description found in $path" + exit 1 + fi + + case "$description" in + "$command - "*) + text="${description#$command - }" + + printf "linkgit:%s[%s]::\n\t" "$command" "$mansection" + case "$attributes" in + *" deprecated "*) + printf "(deprecated) " + ;; + esac + printf "$text.\n\n" + ;; + *) + echo >&2 "Description does not match $command: $description" + exit 1 + ;; + esac +} + +source_dir="$1" +build_dir="$2" +shift 2 + +for out +do + category="${out#cmds-}" + category="${category%.adoc}" + path="$build_dir/$out" + + while read command command_category attributes + do + case "$command" in + "#"*) + continue;; + esac + + case "$command_category" in + "$category") + format_one "$source_dir" "$command" " $attributes ";; + esac + done <"$source_dir/command-list.txt" >"$build_dir/$out+" + + if cmp "$build_dir/$out+" "$build_dir/$out" >/dev/null 2>&1 + then + rm "$build_dir/$out+" + else + mv "$build_dir/$out+" "$build_dir/$out" + fi +done diff --git a/Documentation/meson.build b/Documentation/meson.build index 8b9e692c599..b731c76e9e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/meson.build +++ b/Documentation/meson.build @@ -315,12 +315,12 @@ cmd_lists = [ documentation_deps += custom_target( command: [ - perl, + shell, '@INPUT@', meson.project_source_root(), meson.current_build_dir(), ] + cmd_lists, - input: 'cmd-list.perl', + input: 'cmd-list.sh', output: cmd_lists ) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 8bab8f3481f..97753d2cfa7 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ endif # features. It is optional if you want to neither execute tests nor use any of # these optional features. perl_required = get_option('perl') -if get_option('gitweb').enabled() or 'netrc' in get_option('credential_helpers') or get_option('docs') != [] +if get_option('gitweb').enabled() or 'netrc' in get_option('credential_helpers') perl_required = true endif
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