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Re: [PATCH 1/3 v3] Add support for external programs for handling native fetches

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 5, 2009, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0908051143000.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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<alpine.LNX.2.00.0907310109130.2147@iabervon.org>
Hi,
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> dscho: it turned out that disconnect...() is a method defined to return 
> int.
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
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> +static int fetch(struct transport *transport,
> +		 int nr_heads, const struct ref **to_fetch)
> +{
> +	struct helper_data *data = transport->data;
> +	struct child_process *helper;
> +	const struct ref *posn;
> +	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> +	int i, count;
> +	FILE *file;
> +
> +	count = 0;
> +	for (i = 0; i < nr_heads; i++) {
> +		posn = to_fetch[i];
> +		if (posn->status & REF_STATUS_UPTODATE)
> +			continue;
> +		count++;
> +	}
I still do not like it, but I guess you refuse to please me here.
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> +
> +	if (!count)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	helper = get_helper(transport);
> +
> +	if (!data->fetch)
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	file = xfdopen(helper->out, "r");
> +	for (i = 0; i < nr_heads; i++) {
> +		posn = to_fetch[i];
> +		if (posn->status & REF_STATUS_UPTODATE)
> +			continue;
> +		write_in_full(helper->in, "fetch ", 6);
> +		write_in_full(helper->in, sha1_to_hex(posn->old_sha1), 40);
> +		write_in_full(helper->in, " ", 1);
> +		write_in_full(helper->in, posn->name, strlen(posn->name));
> +		write_in_full(helper->in, "\n", 1);
How about
		strbuf_addf(&buf, "fetch %s %s\n", 
			sha1_to_hex(posn->old_sha1), posn->name);
		write_in_full(helper->in, buf.buf, buf.len);
instead?  It is not only much more readable, but also less error-prone.
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> +static struct ref *get_refs_list(struct transport *transport, int for_push)
> +{
> +	struct child_process *helper;
> +	struct ref *ret = NULL;
> +	struct ref **tail = &ret;
> +	struct ref *posn;
> +	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> +	FILE *file;
> +
> +	helper = get_helper(transport);
> +	write_in_full(helper->in, "list\n", 5);

Speaking of error-prone: we introduced e.g. prefixcmp() for the sole purpose of avoiding errors due to hard-coded constants. I would strongly suggest to introduce a helper here instead of having all those constants that every reviewer has to check (which is no fun).

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> +		if (strbuf_getline(&buf, file, '\n') == EOF)
> +			exit(128); /* child died, message supplied already */
> +
> +		if (!*buf.buf)
> +			break;
> +
> +		eov = strchr(buf.buf, ' ');
> +		if (!eov)
> +			die("Malformed response in ref list: %s", buf.buf);
> +                eon = strchr(eov + 1, ' ');
> +		*eov = '\0';
> +                if (eon)
Funny indentation?
> +                        *eon = '\0';

Please register a complaint about your naming ("posn", "eov", "eon"), and also please register a complaint about the rather confusing order of your statements.

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> +		*tail = alloc_ref(eov + 1);
> +		if (buf.buf[0] == '@')
> +			(*tail)->symref = xstrdup(buf.buf + 1);
> +		else if (buf.buf[0] != '?')
> +			get_sha1_hex(buf.buf, (*tail)->old_sha1);
> +		tail = &((*tail)->next);
> +		strbuf_reset(&buf);

For clarity's sake, this should be done _before_ the strbuf is filled, not after it (because then everybody has to think harder why the code is still correct, but the performance is _exactly_ the same).

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> +	}
> +	strbuf_release(&buf);
> +
> +	for (posn = ret; posn; posn = posn->next)
> +		resolve_remote_symref(posn, ret);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +int transport_native_helper_init(struct transport *transport)
> +{
> +	struct helper_data *data = xmalloc(sizeof(*data));
> +	char *eom = strchr(transport->url, ':');
"End of message"?
All in all, I like this patch much better, thank you!

Ciao, Dscho

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