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Re: [PATCH] add: do not accept pathspec magic 'attr'

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2018, 21:40 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Commit b0db704652 (pathspec: allow querying for attributes -
>> 2017-03-13) adds new pathspec magic 'attr' but only with
>> match_pathspec(). "git add" has some pathspec related code that still
>> does not know about 'attr' and will bail out:
>>
>>     $ git add ':(attr:foo)'
>>     fatal: BUG:dir.c:1584: unsupported magic 40
>>
>> A better solution would be making this code support 'attr'. But I
>> don't know how much work is needed (I'm not familiar with this new
>> magic). For now, let's simply reject this magic with a friendlier
>> message:
>>
>>     $ git add ':(attr:foo)'
>>     fatal: :(attr:foo): pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'attr'
>>
>> Reported-by: smaudet@sebastianaudet.com
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Since Brandon is currently unreachable, let's do this for now.
>
> Thanks.  This certainly make it better than the status quo.

And of course, there is an interesting glitch found after I almost finish day's integration cycle X-<.

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] fixup! add: do not accept pathspec magic 'attr'
[Add the following when squashing]

Update t6135 so that the expected error message is from the "graceful" rejection codepath, not "oops, we were supposed to reject the request to trigger this magic" codepath.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
index 77b8cef661..e436a73962 100755
--- a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
+++ b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh
@@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ test_expect_success 'fail if attr magic is used places not implemented' '
 	# when you attempt to use attr magic in commands that do not implement
 	# attr magic. This test does not advocate git-add to stay that way,
 	# though, but git-add is convenient as it has its own internal pathspec
 	# parsing.
 	test_must_fail git add ":(attr:labelB)" 2>actual &&
-	test_i18ngrep "unsupported magic" actual
+	test_i18ngrep "magic not supported" actual
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'abort on giving invalid label on the command line' '
 	test_must_fail git ls-files . ":(attr:☺)"
 '
-- 
2.19.0-216-g2d3b1c576c
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  1. smaudet@sebastianaudet.comSep 17, 2018
  2. Duy NguyenSep 17, 2018
  3. Brandon Williams's E-Mail bouncingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 17, 2018
  4. Stefan BellerSep 17, 2018
  5. add: do not accept pathspec magic 'attr'Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Sep 18, 2018
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2018

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