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Re: [RFC PATCH 14/14] revert: Change insn sheet format

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2011, 10:49 UTC
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Hi again,
Jonathan Nieder writes:
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> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>>  I've intentionally left parse_cmdline_args unimplemented
> [...]
>>                  Existing implementations in libraries like Glib are
>>  much too heavyweight.
>
> Wait, how did glib enter the picture? :)

Completely unrelated -- I just incidentally saw "g_shell_parse_argv" in glib which does what we want, but it's an overkill.

> The implementation of
> shell-style quoting in [1] is not very complicated; perhaps it could
> complement git's existing parsers for shell-style single-quoted
> expressions and C-style double-quoted expressions in quote.c.
Okay.
> Of course, a more basic question is whether we want to allow passing
> arbitrary command-line arguments through the insn sheet at all (a
> part of me wishes "no", at least at first).
I have an overwhelming desire to say "no", but I can't think of an alternative.
> Could you give an example to illustrate what this functionality would
> be used for?  I can understand wanting to pass "-s" and "-X" flags to
> a merge insn and "-X" to pick, but that's as far as my imagination
> goes.

I wasn't imagining anything else. That's just it -- I've just been breaking my head trying to figure out how to do it :|

-- Ram
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Message 54 of 55 in “[GSoC update] Sequencer: The insn sheet format”
  1. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  2. 01/14 advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflictRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  3. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  6. 02/14 revert: Inline add_message_to_msg functionRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  7. 03/14 revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encodingRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  8. 04/14 revert: Rename no_replay to record_originRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  9. 05/14 revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commitRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  12. 06/14 revert: Eliminate global "commit" variableRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  13. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  15. 07/14 revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line optionsRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  16. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  18. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 12, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2011
  21. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 12, 2011
  22. Jonathan NiederJul 12, 2011
  23. 08/14 revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional codeRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  24. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  25. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  26. 09/14 revert: Don't create invalid replay_opts in parse_argsRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  27. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  28. 10/14 revert: Persist data for continuationRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  29. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  30. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  31. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2011
  32. 11/14 revert: Introduce a layer of indirection over pick_commitsRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  33. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  34. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  35. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  36. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  37. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  38. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2011
  39. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 7, 2011
  40. 12/14 revert: Introduce --reset to cleanup sequencer dataRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  41. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  42. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  43. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  44. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  45. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  46. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 7, 2011
  47. 13/14 revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operationRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  48. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  49. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2011
  50. Drew NorthupJul 6, 2011
  51. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 7, 2011
  52. 14/14 revert: Change insn sheet formatRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 6, 2011
  53. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011
  54. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 6, 2011
  55. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2011

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