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Re* t9902 fails

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2013, 07:52 UTC
Message-ID
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Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
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> would it be possible to run
> "git status"
> and share the result with us?
>
> And did you try Jonathans patch?

It may hide the immediate issue, but I am afraid Jonathan's patch does not fix anything fundamental. If you do this:

	git checkout next
        make
        git checkout master ;# without 'make clean'
        make && cd t && sh ./t9902-*.sh

then the completion machinery will see the leftover git-check-ignore at the top of the working tree (which is the $GIT_EXEC_PATH) and the test that expects "check" to expand only to "checkout" will fail, because 'master' does not have exclusion definition for check-ignore, even though it knows check-attr, check-ref-format and checkout-index are to be excluded as "plumbing".

So if you come up with a brilliant idea to add "git cherry-pack" command and did this:

	git checkout -b tb/cherry-pack
        edit Makefile builtin/cherry-pack.c builtin.h git.c ...
        git add builtin/cherry-pack.c
        make test
        git commit -a -m "cherry-pack: new command"
        git checkout master ;# without 'make clean'
        make && cd t && sh ./t9902-*.sh
the test will break exactly the same way.

If we really wanted to exclude random build artifacts that the current checkout did not build, you have to do one of these things:

 (1) at the beginning of t9902, "rm -fr" a temporary location,
     install the built product with a custom DESTDIR set to that
     temporary location that we now know is empty, and point
     GIT_EXEC_PATH to the libexec/git-core directory in that
     temporary location, so that "git help -a" run in the completion
     script will find _only_ the executable we would install; or
 (2) instead of being inclusive, collecting all executable in
     GIT_EXEC_PATH that happens to be named "git-", add a mode to
     "git help" that lists those that we know to be standard
     commands that the users may want to complete from the command
     line.

An outline to do (2) would look like this patch, but I didn't check other consumers of command-list.txt, so this may be breaking them in unplanned ways.

 builtin/help.c                         | 35 ++++++++++---------------
 command-list.txt                       |  4 +--
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 14 +---------
 generate-cmdlist.sh                    | 13 +++++++++-
 help.c                                 | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 help.h                                 |  1 +
 6 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c
index bd86253..32e7d64 100644
--- a/builtin/help.c
+++ b/builtin/help.c
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "exec_cmd.h"
-#include "common-cmds.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "column.h"
@@ -36,11 +35,16 @@ enum help_format {
 
 static const char *html_path;
 
-static int show_all = 0;
+#define HELP_SHOW_ALL 1
+#define HELP_SHOW_STANDARD 2
+static int show_what;
 static unsigned int colopts;
 static enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE;
 static struct option builtin_help_options[] = {
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all", &show_all, N_("print all available commands")),
+	OPT_SET_INT('a', "all", &show_what, N_("print all available commands"),
+		HELP_SHOW_ALL),
+	OPT_SET_INT(0, "standard", &show_what, N_("print all available commands"),
+		HELP_SHOW_STANDARD),
 	OPT_SET_INT('m', "man", &help_format, N_("show man page"), HELP_FORMAT_MAN),
 	OPT_SET_INT('w', "web", &help_format, N_("show manual in web browser"),
 			HELP_FORMAT_WEB),
@@ -287,23 +291,6 @@ static int git_help_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 
 static struct cmdnames main_cmds, other_cmds;
 
-void list_common_cmds_help(void)
-{
-	int i, longest = 0;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
-		if (longest < strlen(common_cmds[i].name))
-			longest = strlen(common_cmds[i].name);
-	}
-
-	puts(_("The most commonly used git commands are:"));
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
-		printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
-		mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
-		puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
-	}
-}
-
 static int is_git_command(const char *s)
 {
 	return is_in_cmdlist(&main_cmds, s) ||
@@ -442,12 +429,18 @@ int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			builtin_help_usage, 0);
 	parsed_help_format = help_format;
 
-	if (show_all) {
+	if (show_what == HELP_SHOW_ALL) {
 		git_config(git_help_config, NULL);
 		printf(_("usage: %s%s"), _(git_usage_string), "\n\n");
 		list_commands(colopts, &main_cmds, &other_cmds);
 		printf("%s\n", _(git_more_info_string));
 		return 0;
+	} else if (show_what == HELP_SHOW_STANDARD) {
+		int i;
+		limit_to_standard(&main_cmds);
+		for (i = 0; i < main_cmds.cnt; i++)
+			printf("%s\n", main_cmds.names[i]->name);
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 	if (!argv[0]) {
diff --git a/command-list.txt b/command-list.txt
index 7e8cfec..94ce8ec 100644
--- a/command-list.txt
+++ b/command-list.txt
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ git-show                                mainporcelain common
 git-show-branch                         ancillaryinterrogators
 git-show-index                          plumbinginterrogators
 git-show-ref                            plumbinginterrogators
-git-sh-i18n                             purehelpers
-git-sh-setup                            purehelpers
+git-sh-i18n                             purehelpers nocomplete
+git-sh-setup                            purehelpers nocomplete
 git-stash                               mainporcelain
 git-status                              mainporcelain common
 git-stripspace                          purehelpers
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index a4c48e1..46f22af 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -531,23 +531,11 @@ __git_complete_strategy ()
 	return 1
 }
 
-__git_list_all_commands ()
-{
-	local i IFS=" "$'\n'
-	for i in $(git help -a|egrep '^  [a-zA-Z0-9]')
-	do
-		case $i in
-		*--*)             : helper pattern;;
-		*) echo $i;;
-		esac
-	done
-}
-
 __git_all_commands=
 __git_compute_all_commands ()
 {
 	test -n "$__git_all_commands" ||
-	__git_all_commands=$(__git_list_all_commands)
+	__git_all_commands=$(git help --standard)
 }
 
 __git_list_porcelain_commands ()
diff --git a/generate-cmdlist.sh b/generate-cmdlist.sh
index 9a4c9b9..7800af3 100755
--- a/generate-cmdlist.sh
+++ b/generate-cmdlist.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ struct cmdname_help {
 static struct cmdname_help common_cmds[] = {"
 
 sed -n -e 's/^git-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].* common.*/\1/p' command-list.txt |
-sort |
+LC_ALL=C LANG=C sort |
 while read cmd
 do
      sed -n '
@@ -20,4 +20,15 @@ do
 	    p
      }' "Documentation/git-$cmd.txt"
 done
+echo "};
+
+static const char *standard_cmd[] = {"
+
+LC_ALL=C LANG=C sort command-list.txt |
+sed -n -e '
+	/^git-[^ 	]*[ 	].* deprecated.*/d
+	/^git-[^ 	]*[ 	].* nocomplete.*/d
+	s/^git-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].*/  "\1",/p
+'
+
 echo "};"
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 2a42ec6..2ad10db 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ void load_command_list(const char *prefix,
 		uniq(main_cmds);
 	}
 
-	if (env_path) {
+	if (env_path && other_cmds) {
 		char *paths, *path, *colon;
 		path = paths = xstrdup(env_path);
 		while (1) {
@@ -201,7 +201,33 @@ void load_command_list(const char *prefix,
 		      sizeof(*other_cmds->names), cmdname_compare);
 		uniq(other_cmds);
 	}
-	exclude_cmds(other_cmds, main_cmds);
+
+	if (other_cmds)
+		exclude_cmds(other_cmds, main_cmds);
+}
+
+void limit_to_standard(struct cmdnames *cmds)
+{
+	int src = 0, dst = 0, ref = 0;
+
+	while (src < cmds->cnt && ref < ARRAY_SIZE(standard_cmd)) {
+		int cmp = strcmp(cmds->names[src]->name, standard_cmd[ref]);
+		if (cmp < 0) {
+			src++; /* not a standard command */
+		} else if (!cmp) {
+			if (dst != src) {
+				free(cmds->names[dst]);
+				cmds->names[dst] = cmds->names[src];
+			}
+			ref++;
+			dst++;
+		} else {
+			ref++; /* uninstalled standard command */
+		}
+	}
+	for (src = dst; src < cmds->cnt; src++)
+		free(cmds->names[src]);
+	cmds->cnt = dst;
 }
 
 void list_commands(unsigned int colopts,
@@ -223,6 +249,23 @@ void list_commands(unsigned int colopts,
 	}
 }
 
+void list_common_cmds_help(void)
+{
+	int i, longest = 0;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
+		if (longest < strlen(common_cmds[i].name))
+			longest = strlen(common_cmds[i].name);
+	}
+
+	puts(_("The most commonly used git commands are:"));
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
+		printf("   %s   ", common_cmds[i].name);
+		mput_char(' ', longest - strlen(common_cmds[i].name));
+		puts(_(common_cmds[i].help));
+	}
+}
+
 int is_in_cmdlist(struct cmdnames *c, const char *s)
 {
 	int i;
diff --git a/help.h b/help.h
index 0ae5a12..ce0d2a5 100644
--- a/help.h
+++ b/help.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd);
 extern void load_command_list(const char *prefix,
 			      struct cmdnames *main_cmds,
 			      struct cmdnames *other_cmds);
+extern void limit_to_standard(struct cmdnames *);
 extern void add_cmdname(struct cmdnames *cmds, const char *name, int len);
 /* Here we require that excludes is a sorted list. */
 extern void exclude_cmds(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *excludes);
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