Re: [PATCH v8 1/6] interpret-trailers: factor trailer rewriting
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- Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 9, 2026, 10:36 UTC
- Message-ID
- <de777714-49f1-41d4-a645-b173ca0e2b31@gmail.com>
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- <xmqqo6l0zn2p.fsf@gitster.g>
On 06/03/2026 21:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes: > >> From: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty> >> >> Extract the trailer rewriting logic into a helper that appends to an >> output strbuf. >> >> Update interpret_trailers() to handle file I/O only: read input once, >> call the helper, and write the buffered result. >> >> This separation makes it easier to move the helper into trailer.c in the >> next commit. >> >> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> >> Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty> >> --- > > If "Li wrote it and signed it off, Phillip is relaying" is what is > happening, the sign-offs are in reverse order. If "Li incorporated > what Phillip wrote earlier in his larger work", then the sign-offs > may be fine, but it would be necessary to hint that that is what > happened in the proposed log message. I cannot quite tell which is > the case.
It's the latter, I posted a diff[1] and Li based this patch on that diff
Thanks
Phillip
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/7d12b046-365f-441c-af8e-8a39d61efbbd@gmail.com/
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>> builtin/interpret-trailers.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/builtin/interpret-trailers.c b/builtin/interpret-trailers.c
>> index 41b0750e5af..69f9d67ec0e 100644
>> --- a/builtin/interpret-trailers.c
>> +++ b/builtin/interpret-trailers.c
>> @@ -136,32 +136,21 @@ static void read_input_file(struct strbuf *sb, const char *file)
>> strbuf_complete_line(sb);
>> }
>>
>> -static void interpret_trailers(const struct process_trailer_options *opts,
>> - struct list_head *new_trailer_head,
>> - const char *file)
>> +static void process_trailers(const struct process_trailer_options *opts,
>> + struct list_head *new_trailer_head,
>> + struct strbuf *input, struct strbuf *out)
>> {
>> LIST_HEAD(head);
>> - struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>> - struct strbuf trailer_block_sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>> struct trailer_block *trailer_block;
>> - FILE *outfile = stdout;
>> -
>> - trailer_config_init();
>> -
>> - read_input_file(&sb, file);
>> -
>> - if (opts->in_place)
>> - outfile = create_in_place_tempfile(file);
>> -
>> - trailer_block = parse_trailers(opts, sb.buf, &head);
>> +
>> + trailer_block = parse_trailers(opts, input->buf, &head);
>>
>> /* Print the lines before the trailer block */
>> if (!opts->only_trailers)
>> - fwrite(sb.buf, 1, trailer_block_start(trailer_block), outfile);
>> + strbuf_add(out, input->buf, trailer_block_start(trailer_block));
>>
>> if (!opts->only_trailers && !blank_line_before_trailer_block(trailer_block))
>> - fprintf(outfile, "\n");
>> -
>> + strbuf_addch(out, '\n');
>>
>> if (!opts->only_input) {
>> LIST_HEAD(config_head);
>> @@ -173,22 +162,40 @@ static void interpret_trailers(const struct process_trailer_options *opts,
>> }
>>
>> /* Print trailer block. */
>> - format_trailers(opts, &head, &trailer_block_sb);
>> + format_trailers(opts, &head, out);
>> free_trailers(&head);
>> - fwrite(trailer_block_sb.buf, 1, trailer_block_sb.len, outfile);
>> - strbuf_release(&trailer_block_sb);
>>
>> /* Print the lines after the trailer block as is. */
>> if (!opts->only_trailers)
>> - fwrite(sb.buf + trailer_block_end(trailer_block), 1,
>> - sb.len - trailer_block_end(trailer_block), outfile);
>> + strbuf_add(out, input->buf + trailer_block_end(trailer_block),
>> + input->len - trailer_block_end(trailer_block));
>> trailer_block_release(trailer_block);
>> -
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void interpret_trailers(const struct process_trailer_options *opts,
>> + struct list_head *new_trailer_head,
>> + const char *file)
>> +{
>> + struct strbuf input = STRBUF_INIT;
>> + struct strbuf out = STRBUF_INIT;
>> + FILE *outfile = stdout;
>> +
>> + trailer_config_init();
>> +
>> + read_input_file(&input, file);
>> +
>> + if (opts->in_place)
>> + outfile = create_in_place_tempfile(file);
>> +
>> + process_trailers(opts, new_trailer_head, &input, &out);
>> +
>> + strbuf_write(&out, outfile);
>> if (opts->in_place)
>> if (rename_tempfile(&trailers_tempfile, file))
>> die_errno(_("could not rename temporary file to %s"), file);
>>
>> - strbuf_release(&sb);
>> + strbuf_release(&input);
>> + strbuf_release(&out);
>> }
>>
>> int cmd_interpret_trailers(int argc,