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[PATCH 4/5] builtin-merge: allow using a custom strategy

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jul 29, 2008, 15:25 UTC
Message-ID
<722d66a5a897b694f374aa96bd58aff01a2a5932.1217344803.git.vmiklos@frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<5ad105819efb1c905bd01db3d08eb3422d283b3b.1217344803.git.vmiklos@frugalware.org>

Allow using a custom strategy, as long as it's named git-merge-foo. The error handling is now done using is_git_command(). The list of available strategies is now shown by list_commands().

If an invalid strategy is supplied, like -s foobar, then git-merge would list all git-merge-* commands. This is not perfect, since for example git-merge-index is not a valid strategy.

These are removed from the output by scanning the list of main commands; if the git-merge-foo command is listed in the all_strategy list, then it's shown, otherwise excluded. This does not exclude commands somewhere else in the PATH, where custom strategies are expected.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
---
 builtin-merge.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-merge.c b/builtin-merge.c
index e78fa18..29826b1 100644
--- a/builtin-merge.c
+++ b/builtin-merge.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "log-tree.h"
 #include "color.h"
 #include "rerere.h"
+#include "help.h"
 
 #define DEFAULT_TWOHEAD (1<<0)
 #define DEFAULT_OCTOPUS (1<<1)
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ static int option_parse_message(const struct option *opt,
 static struct strategy *get_strategy(const char *name)
 {
 	int i;
-	struct strbuf err;
+	struct strategy *ret;
 
 	if (!name)
 		return NULL;
@@ -86,12 +87,29 @@ static struct strategy *get_strategy(const char *name)
 		if (!strcmp(name, all_strategy[i].name))
 			return &all_strategy[i];
 
-	strbuf_init(&err, 0);
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(all_strategy); i++)
-		strbuf_addf(&err, " %s", all_strategy[i].name);
-	fprintf(stderr, "Could not find merge strategy '%s'.\n", name);
-	fprintf(stderr, "Available strategies are:%s.\n", err.buf);
-	exit(1);
+	if (!is_git_command(name, "git-merge-")) {
+		struct cmdnames not_strategies;
+
+		memset(&not_strategies, 0, sizeof(struct cmdnames));
+		for (i = 0; i < main_cmds.cnt; i++) {
+			int j, found = 0;
+			struct cmdname *ent = main_cmds.names[i];
+			for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_SIZE(all_strategy); j++)
+				if (!strncmp(ent->name, all_strategy[j].name, ent->len)
+						&& !all_strategy[j].name[ent->len])
+					found = 1;
+			if (!found)
+				add_cmdname(&not_strategies, ent->name, ent->len);
+		}
+		fprintf(stderr, "Could not find merge strategy '%s'.\n\n", name);
+		list_commands("git-merge-", "strategies", &not_strategies);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	ret = xmalloc(sizeof(struct strategy));
+	memset(ret, 0, sizeof(struct strategy));
+	ret->name = xstrdup(name);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void append_strategy(struct strategy *s)
-- 
1.6.0.rc0.14.g95f8.dirty
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  2. 1/5 builtin-help: make is_git_command() usable outside builtin-helpMiklos Vajna, Jul 29, 2008
  3. 2/5 builtin-help: make list_commands() a bit more genericMiklos Vajna, Jul 29, 2008
  4. 3/5 builtin-help: make it possible to exclude some commands in list_commands()Miklos Vajna, Jul 29, 2008
  5. 4/5 builtin-merge: allow using a custom strategyMiklos Vajna, Jul 29, 2008
  6. 5/5 Add a new test for using a custom merge strategyMiklos Vajna, Jul 29, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2008
  9. 3/5 builtin-help: make it possible to exclude some commands in list_commands()Miklos Vajna, Jul 29, 2008

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