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Re: [PATCH 30/31] Git.pm: make hash size independent

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 18, 2019, 21:00 UTC
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<87r2c4olqm.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 18 2019, brian m. carlson wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> The gitweb code doesn't load Git.pm now, but does anyone know a reason
>> for why we'd avoid any perl/* dependency in the gitweb code? If not the
>> regex here & in gitweb could be factored into e.g. a tiny Git::OID
>> library which would either just expose a $GIT::OID_REGEX, or something
>> like the sort of interface (might not be worth it) that I suggested in
>> my feedback to 31/31.
>
> I think one potential issue here is that some distributors bundle the
> Perl modules with git send-email and not gitweb, and they're packaged
> independently. I'm not opposed to seeing a patch to do that, but it
> probably belongs in its own series.

In packaging terms that one's easy to juggle, FWIW I'm just aware of e.g. RedHat packaging perl-Git as its own thing depended on by git-svn, git-email & friends, not anyone who packages it with git-send-email specifically.

But according to gitweb/README it's also meant to be used as a stand-alone script. So:

 * You can wget it from the git.git repo & run it
 * You can run it with any (reasonable) version of git
 * If you're missing perl modules, those are all on CPAN (just CGI.pm
   should be missing these days)

Making it depend on any module we ship would break all those things. I don't know if anyone cares, but avoiding this very minor copy/pasting seems like a bad reason to wake that particular dragon.

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Message 48 of 56 in “Hash function transition part 16”
  1. 00/31 Hash function transition part 16brian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  2. 01/31 t/lib-submodule-update: use appropriate length constantbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  3. 03/31 pack-bitmap: convert struct stored_bitmap to object_idbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  4. 02/31 pack-bitmap: make bitmap header handling hash agnosticbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  5. 05/31 pack-bitmap: switch hard-coded constants to the_hash_algobrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 12, 2019
  7. 04/31 pack-bitmap: replace sha1_to_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  8. Jeff KingFeb 12, 2019
  9. brian m. carlsonFeb 13, 2019
  10. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2019
  11. 08/31 notes: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  12. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2019
  13. brian m. carlsonFeb 12, 2019
  14. 09/31 notes: replace sha1_to_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  15. 11/31 builtin/name-rev: make hash-size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  16. 06/31 submodule: avoid hard-coded constantsbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  17. 10/31 object-store: rename and expand packed_git's sha1 memberbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  18. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2019
  19. brian m. carlsonFeb 14, 2019
  20. 14/31 builtin/am: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  21. 15/31 builtin/pull: make hash-size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  22. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2019
  23. 13/31 fast-import: replace sha1_to_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  24. 17/31 http-backend: allow 64-character hex namesbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  25. 16/31 http-push: convert to use the_hash_algobrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  26. 12/31 fast-import: make hash-size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  27. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2019
  28. brian m. carlsonFeb 12, 2019
  29. 18/31 http-push: remove remaining uses of sha1_to_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  30. 20/31 http: replace hard-coded constant with the_hash_algobrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  31. 22/31 http: replace sha1_to_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  32. 21/31 http: compute hash of downloaded objects using the_hash_algobrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  33. 23/31 remote-curl: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  34. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 12, 2019
  35. 19/31 http-walker: replace sha1_to_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  36. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2019
  37. 29/31 read-cache: read data in a hash-independent waybrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  38. 28/31 dir: make untracked cache extension hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  39. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 12, 2019
  40. brian m. carlsonFeb 13, 2019
  41. 25/31 archive: convert struct archiver_args to object_idbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  42. 26/31 refspec: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  43. 31/31 gitweb: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  44. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 12, 2019
  45. 30/31 Git.pm: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  46. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 12, 2019
  47. brian m. carlsonFeb 18, 2019
  48. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 18, 2019
  49. 24/31 archive-tar: make hash size independentbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  50. René ScharfeFeb 12, 2019
  51. René ScharfeFeb 12, 2019
  52. brian m. carlsonFeb 13, 2019
  53. 27/31 builtin/difftool: use parse_oid_hexbrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  54. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2019
  55. 07/31 notes-merge: switch to use the_hash_algobrian m. carlson, Feb 12, 2019
  56. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 12, 2019

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