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Re: [PATCH] color_parse_mem: allow empty color spec

From
Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 1, 2017, 01:19 UTC
Message-ID
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 02:45:40PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> * nd/log-graph-configurable-colors (2017-01-23) 3 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2017-01-23 at c369982ad8)
>>  + log --graph: customize the graph lines with config log.graphColors
>>  + color.c: trim leading spaces in color_parse_mem()
>>  + color.c: fix color_parse_mem() with value_len == 0
>>
>>  Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph"
>>  rather limiting.  A mechanism to customize the set of colors has
>>  been introduced.
>>
>>  Reported to break "add -p".
>>  cf. <20170128040709.tqx4u45ktgpkbfm4@sigill.intra.peff.net>
>
> I hadn't heard anything back, so I wrapped up my fix with a commit
> message and tests (it needs to go on top anyway, since the breakage is
> in 'next').
>

I was just about to report this breakage... It definitely breaks usage of git-add-interactive..

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> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] color_parse_mem: allow empty color spec
>
> Prior to c2f41bf52 (color.c: fix color_parse_mem() with
> value_len == 0, 2017-01-19), the empty string was
> interpreted as a color "reset". This was an accidental
> outcome, and that commit turned it into an error.
>
> However, scripts may pass the empty string as a default
> value to "git config --get-color" to disable color when the
> value is not defined. The git-add--interactive script does
> this. As a result, the script is unusable since c2f41bf52
> unless you have color.diff.plain defined (if it is defined,
> then we don't parse the empty default at all).
>
> Our test scripts didn't notice the recent breakage because
> they run without a terminal, and thus without color. They
> never hit this code path at all. And nobody noticed the
> original buggy "reset" behavior, because it was effectively
> a noop.
>
> Let's fix the code to have an empty color name produce an
> empty sequence of color codes. The tests need a few fixups:
>
>   - we'll add a new test in t4026 to cover this case. But
>     note that we need to tweak the color() helper. While
>     we're there, let's factor out the literal ANSI ESC
>     character. Otherwise it makes the diff quite hard to
>     read.
>
>   - we'll add a basic sanity-check in t4026 that "git add
>     -p" works at all when color is enabled. That would have
>     caught this bug, as well as any others that are specific
>     to the color code paths.
>
>   - 73c727d69 (log --graph: customize the graph lines with
>     config log.graphColors, 2017-01-19) added a test to
>     t4202 that checks some "invalid" graph color config.
>     Since ",, blue" before yielded only "blue" as valid, and
>     now yields "empty, empty, blue", we don't match the
>     expected output.
>
>     One way to fix this would be to change the expectation
>     to the empty color strings. But that makes the test much
>     less interesting, since we show only two graph lines,
>     both of which would be colorless.
>
>     Since the empty-string case is now covered by t4026,
>     let's remove them entirely here. They're just in the way
>     of the primary thing the test is supposed to be
>     checking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---

The patch looks good to me. Very nice to have a detailed explanation of why we didn't catch it before, and how to ensure we don't have this happen again.

Thanks, Jake

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>  color.c                    |  6 ++++--
>  t/t3701-add-interactive.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  t/t4026-color.sh           |  7 ++++++-
>  t/t4202-log.sh             |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/color.c b/color.c
> index 7bb4a96f8..2925a819b 100644
> --- a/color.c
> +++ b/color.c
> @@ -212,8 +212,10 @@ int color_parse_mem(const char *value, int value_len, char *dst)
>                 len--;
>         }
>
> -       if (!len)
> -               return -1;
> +       if (!len) {
> +               dst[0] = '\0';
> +               return 0;
> +       }
>
>         if (!strncasecmp(ptr, "reset", len)) {
>                 xsnprintf(dst, end - dst, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
> diff --git a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
> index deae948c7..5ffe78e92 100755
> --- a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
> +++ b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
> @@ -380,4 +380,18 @@ test_expect_success 'patch mode ignores unmerged entries' '
>         test_cmp expected diff
>  '
>
> +test_expect_success 'diffs can be colorized' '
> +       git reset --hard &&
> +
> +       # force color even though the test script has no terminal
> +       test_config color.ui always &&
> +
> +       echo content >test &&
> +       printf y | git add -p >output 2>&1 &&
> +
> +       # We do not want to depend on the exact coloring scheme
> +       # git uses for diffs, so just check that we saw some kind of color.
> +       grep "$(printf "\\033")" output
> +'
> +
>  test_done
> diff --git a/t/t4026-color.sh b/t/t4026-color.sh
> index ec78c5e3a..671e951ee 100755
> --- a/t/t4026-color.sh
> +++ b/t/t4026-color.sh
> @@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
>  test_description='Test diff/status color escape codes'
>  . ./test-lib.sh
>
> +ESC=$(printf '\033')
>  color()
>  {
>         actual=$(git config --get-color no.such.slot "$1") &&
> -       test "$actual" = " $2"
> +       test "$actual" = "${2:+$ESC}$2"
>  }
>
>  invalid_color()
> @@ -21,6 +22,10 @@ test_expect_success 'reset' '
>         color "reset" "[m"
>  '
>
> +test_expect_success 'empty color is empty' '
> +       color "" ""
> +'
> +
>  test_expect_success 'attribute before color name' '
>         color "bold red" "[1;31m"
>  '
> diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh
> index 0aeabed96..1edbb1e7f 100755
> --- a/t/t4202-log.sh
> +++ b/t/t4202-log.sh
> @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ cat > expect.colors <<\EOF
>  EOF
>
>  test_expect_success 'log --graph with merge with log.graphColors' '
> -       test_config log.graphColors ",, blue,invalid-color, cyan, red  , " &&
> +       test_config log.graphColors " blue,invalid-color, cyan, red  , " &&
>         git log --color=always --graph --date-order --pretty=tformat:%s |
>                 test_decode_color | sed "s/ *\$//" >actual &&
>         test_cmp expect.colors actual
> --
> 2.11.0.948.gca97da533
>
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Message 3 of 11 in “What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2017, #06; Tue, 31)”
  1. Junio C HamanoJan 31, 2017
  2. color_parse_mem: allow empty color specJeff King, Feb 1, 2017
  3. Jacob KellerFeb 1, 2017
  4. Duy NguyenFeb 2, 2017
  5. document behavior of empty color nameJeff King, Feb 2, 2017
  6. Duy NguyenFeb 3, 2017
  7. Jeff KingFeb 3, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2017
  9. Jeff KingFeb 4, 2017
  10. Patrick SteinhardtFeb 1, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2017

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