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Re: [PATCH 2/3] fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim'

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Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@lukeshu.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2021, 15:45 UTC
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:27:35 -0600, Taylor Blau wrote:

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> 
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 04:54:40PM -0600, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> > From: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
> >
> > But still keep --signed-tags=warn as an undocumented alias.  This name
> > is clearer as it has symmetry with warn-strip:
> >
> >                    action              ->                   action
> >        +----------------------------+  ->       +----------------------------+
> >   msg? |      verbatim |      strip |  ->  msg? |      verbatim |      strip |
> >        |          warn | warn-strip |  ->       | warn-verbatim | warn-strip |
> >        +----------------------------+  ->       +----------------------------+
> 
> This table is rather confusing to me. What's unclear to me is what
> "msg?" and "action" are referring to. After reading your patch, I think
> it may be clearer to say:
> 
>     The --signed-tags option takes one of five arguments specifying how
>     to handle singed tags during export. Among these arguments, strip is
>     to warn-strip as verbatim is to warn. (The unmentioned argument is
>     'abort', which stops the fast-export process entirely). That is,
>     signatures are either stripped or copied verbatim while exporting,
>     with or without a warning.
> 
>     Make clear that the "warn" option instructs fast-export to copy
>     signatures verbatim by matching the pattern (and calling the option
>     "warn-verbatim").
> 
>     To maintain backwards compatibility, "warn" is still recognized as
>     an undocumented alias.
Thank you, I'll take much of this wording.
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> > +test_expect_success 'signed-tags=warn' '
> > +	git fast-export --signed-tags=warn sign-your-name >output 2>err &&
> > +	grep PGP output &&
> > +	test -s err
> > +'
> > +
> > +test_expect_success 'signed-tags=warn-verbatim' '
> > +	git fast-export --signed-tags=warn sign-your-name >output 2>err &&
> 
> s/warn/warn-verbatim ?
Indeed, oops!

I'll also add a comment clarifying that the signed-tags=warn test is testing for backward compatibility.

-- 
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker
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  2. 1/3 git-fast-import.txt: add missing LF in the BNFLuke Shumaker, Apr 19, 2021
  3. 2/3 fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim'Luke Shumaker, Apr 19, 2021
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  6. 3/3 fast-export, fast-import: implement signed-commitsLuke Shumaker, Apr 19, 2021
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