# [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter

7 messages from 2016-10-19 to 2016-10-20. Participants: Jeff King, Junio C Hamano, Santiago Torres.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44330

## Jeff King, 2016-10-19 20:35

Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter
Message-ID: <20161019203546.dfqmi2czcxopgj6w@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161019203546.dfqmi2czcxopgj6w%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20161019203520.zevkb75at2nrogdm@sigill.intra.peff.net>

```
This function does two things: if we know we are filtering
only a certain kind of ref, then we can immediately know
that we have that kind. If not, then we compute the kind
from the fully-qualified refname. The latter half is useful
for other callers; let's split it out.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 ref-filter.c | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
index cfbcd73..77ec9de 100644
--- a/ref-filter.c
+++ b/ref-filter.c
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static struct ref_array_item *new_ref_array_item(const char *refname,
 	return ref;
 }
 
-static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
+static int ref_kind_from_refname(const char *refname)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
 
@@ -1342,11 +1342,7 @@ static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
 		{ "refs/tags/", FILTER_REFS_TAGS}
 	};
 
-	if (filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES ||
-	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_REMOTES ||
-	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_TAGS)
-		return filter->kind;
-	else if (!strcmp(refname, "HEAD"))
+	if (!strcmp(refname, "HEAD"))
 		return FILTER_REFS_DETACHED_HEAD;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ref_kind); i++) {
@@ -1357,6 +1353,15 @@ static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
 	return FILTER_REFS_OTHERS;
 }
 
+static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
+{
+	if (filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES ||
+	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_REMOTES ||
+	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_TAGS)
+		return filter->kind;
+	return ref_kind_from_refname(refname);
+}
+
 /*
  * A call-back given to for_each_ref().  Filter refs and keep them for
  * later object processing.
-- 
2.10.1.619.g16351a7


```

## Jeff King, 2016-10-19 20:35

Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] ref-filter: add function to print single ref_array_item
Message-ID: <20161019203520.zevkb75at2nrogdm@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161019203520.zevkb75at2nrogdm%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20161019170733.ey3d53miykn5t5cq@LykOS.localdomain>

```
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 01:07:34PM -0400, Santiago Torres wrote:

> > I guess that may complicate things for the caller you add in this
> > series, which may not have a fully-qualified refname (which is obviously
> > how filter_ref_kind() figures it out). I'd argue that is a bug, though,
> > as things like "%(refname)" are generally expected to print out the
> > fully refname ("git tag --format=%(refname)" does so, and you can use
> > "%(refname:short)" if you want the shorter part).
> 
> Hmm, I hadn't actually noticed that. Do you have any suggestions in how to
> address this?
> 
> In general this feels like a consequence of disambiguating .git/tags/*
> within builtin/tag.c rather than letting ref-filter figure it out.

The partial solution would look like something below. It's not too bad
because git-tag always knows that it's working a ref in the refs/tags
namespace (and we don't even have to qualify it ourselves,
for_each_tag_name already does it for us).

But verify-tag feeds arbitrary sha1 expressions. See the notes in the
second patch.

  [1/2]: ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter
  [2/2]: tag: send fully qualified refnames to verify_tag_and_format

 builtin/tag.c |  2 +-
 ref-filter.c  | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 ref-filter.h  |  6 +++++-
 tag.c         |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-Peff

```

## Jeff King, 2016-10-19 20:39

Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tag: send fully qualified refnames to verify_tag_and_format
Message-ID: <20161019203943.epjxnfci7vcqg4xv@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161019203943.epjxnfci7vcqg4xv%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20161019203520.zevkb75at2nrogdm@sigill.intra.peff.net>

```
The ref-filter code generally expects to see fully qualified
refs, so that things like "%(refname)" and "%(refname:short)"
work as expected. We can do so easily from git-tag, which
always works with refnames in the refs/tags namespace. As a
bonus, we can drop the "kind" parameter from
pretty_print_ref() and just deduce it automatically.

Unfortunately, things are not so simple for verify-tag,
which takes an arbitrary sha1 expression. It has no clue if
a refname as used or not, and whether it was in the
refs/tags namespace.

In an ideal world, get_sha1_with_context() would optionally
tell us about any refs we resolved while it was working, and
we could just feed that refname (and then in cases where we
didn't use a ref at all, like a bare sha1, we could fallback
to just showing the sha1 name the user gave us).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
I think you'd really just squash the various bits of this into your
series at the right spots, though I don't mind it on top, either.

The big question is to what degree we should care about the verify-tag
case. I don't think it's any worse off with this change than it is with
your series (its "kind" becomes "OTHER", but I don't think that is
actually used for display at all; the name remains the same). I'd be OK
with leaving it like this, as a known bug, until get_sha1_with_context()
learns to tell us about the ref. It's an unhandled corner case in a
brand-new feature, not a regression in an existing one.

 builtin/tag.c | 2 +-
 ref-filter.c  | 4 ++--
 ref-filter.h  | 6 +++++-
 tag.c         | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index 49aeb50..18eab7e 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static int verify_tag(const char *name, const char *ref,
 	if (fmt_pretty)
 		flags = GPG_VERIFY_QUIET;
 
-	return verify_and_format_tag(sha1, name, fmt_pretty, flags);
+	return verify_and_format_tag(sha1, ref, fmt_pretty, flags);
 }
 
 static int do_sign(struct strbuf *buffer)
diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
index 77ec9de..74da17a 100644
--- a/ref-filter.c
+++ b/ref-filter.c
@@ -1643,11 +1643,11 @@ void show_ref_array_item(struct ref_array_item *info, const char *format, int qu
 }
 
 void pretty_print_ref(const char *name, const unsigned char *sha1,
-		const char *format, unsigned kind)
+		      const char *format)
 {
 	struct ref_array_item *ref_item;
 	ref_item = new_ref_array_item(name, sha1, 0);
-	ref_item->kind = kind;
+	ref_item->kind = ref_kind_from_refname(name);
 	show_ref_array_item(ref_item, format, 0);
 	free_array_item(ref_item);
 }
diff --git a/ref-filter.h b/ref-filter.h
index 3d23090..fed2f5e 100644
--- a/ref-filter.h
+++ b/ref-filter.h
@@ -107,7 +107,11 @@ struct ref_sorting *ref_default_sorting(void);
 /*  Function to parse --merged and --no-merged options */
 int parse_opt_merge_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset);
 
+/*
+ * Print a single ref, outside of any ref-filter. Note that the
+ * name must be a fully qualified refname.
+ */
 void pretty_print_ref(const char *name, const unsigned char *sha1,
-		const char *format, unsigned kind);
+		      const char *format);
 
 #endif /*  REF_FILTER_H  */
diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
index d3512c0..d5a7cfb 100644
--- a/tag.c
+++ b/tag.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int verify_and_format_tag(const unsigned char *sha1, const char *name,
 	free(buf);
 
 	if (fmt_pretty)
-		pretty_print_ref(name, sha1, fmt_pretty, FILTER_REFS_TAGS);
+		pretty_print_ref(name, sha1, fmt_pretty);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.10.1.619.g16351a7

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2016-10-19 21:23

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter
Message-ID: <xmqqd1iwkp7m.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqd1iwkp7m.fsf%40gitster.mtv.corp.google.com
In-Reply-To: <20161019203546.dfqmi2czcxopgj6w@sigill.intra.peff.net>

```
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter

I think you meant ref_kind_from_refname() ;-)

Looks like a good idea.

> This function does two things: if we know we are filtering
> only a certain kind of ref, then we can immediately know
> that we have that kind. If not, then we compute the kind
> from the fully-qualified refname. The latter half is useful
> for other callers; let's split it out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
>  ref-filter.c | 17 +++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ref-filter.c b/ref-filter.c
> index cfbcd73..77ec9de 100644
> --- a/ref-filter.c
> +++ b/ref-filter.c
> @@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static struct ref_array_item *new_ref_array_item(const char *refname,
>  	return ref;
>  }
>  
> -static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
> +static int ref_kind_from_refname(const char *refname)
>  {
>  	unsigned int i;
>  
> @@ -1342,11 +1342,7 @@ static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
>  		{ "refs/tags/", FILTER_REFS_TAGS}
>  	};
>  
> -	if (filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES ||
> -	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_REMOTES ||
> -	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_TAGS)
> -		return filter->kind;
> -	else if (!strcmp(refname, "HEAD"))
> +	if (!strcmp(refname, "HEAD"))
>  		return FILTER_REFS_DETACHED_HEAD;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ref_kind); i++) {
> @@ -1357,6 +1353,15 @@ static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
>  	return FILTER_REFS_OTHERS;
>  }
>  
> +static int filter_ref_kind(struct ref_filter *filter, const char *refname)
> +{
> +	if (filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_BRANCHES ||
> +	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_REMOTES ||
> +	    filter->kind == FILTER_REFS_TAGS)
> +		return filter->kind;
> +	return ref_kind_from_refname(refname);
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * A call-back given to for_each_ref().  Filter refs and keep them for
>   * later object processing.

```

## Jeff King, 2016-10-19 21:33

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter
Message-ID: <20161019213311.7gmlrqdnjoibq3de@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161019213311.7gmlrqdnjoibq3de%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd1iwkp7m.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

```
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:23:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: split ref_kind_from_filter
> 
> I think you meant ref_kind_from_refname() ;-)
> 
> Looks like a good idea.

Heh, I actually meant filter_ref_kind(), which is the original function.
But any name that is actually a real function would do. :)

-Peff

```

## Santiago Torres, 2016-10-20 16:57

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tag: send fully qualified refnames to verify_tag_and_format
Message-ID: <20161020165700.qwgli5mbya3d7nzz@LykOS.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161020165700.qwgli5mbya3d7nzz%40LykOS.localdomain
In-Reply-To: <20161019203943.epjxnfci7vcqg4xv@sigill.intra.peff.net>

```
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 04:39:44PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> The ref-filter code generally expects to see fully qualified
> refs, so that things like "%(refname)" and "%(refname:short)"
> work as expected. We can do so easily from git-tag, which
> always works with refnames in the refs/tags namespace. As a
> bonus, we can drop the "kind" parameter from
> pretty_print_ref() and just deduce it automatically.
> 
> Unfortunately, things are not so simple for verify-tag,
> which takes an arbitrary sha1 expression. It has no clue if
> a refname as used or not, and whether it was in the
> refs/tags namespace.
> 
> In an ideal world, get_sha1_with_context() would optionally
> tell us about any refs we resolved while it was working, and
> we could just feed that refname (and then in cases where we
> didn't use a ref at all, like a bare sha1, we could fallback
> to just showing the sha1 name the user gave us).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> I think you'd really just squash the various bits of this into your
> series at the right spots, though I don't mind it on top, either.
> 
> The big question is to what degree we should care about the verify-tag
> case. I don't think it's any worse off with this change than it is with
> your series (its "kind" becomes "OTHER", but I don't think that is
> actually used for display at all; the name remains the same). I'd be OK
> with leaving it like this, as a known bug, until get_sha1_with_context()
> learns to tell us about the ref. It's an unhandled corner case in a
> brand-new feature, not a regression in an existing one.

I see now, I think I can sprinkle some of these changes on 2/7 then. The
rest should be doing 4/7 and 5/7. Does this sound ok?

```

## Jeff King, 2016-10-20 21:39

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tag: send fully qualified refnames to verify_tag_and_format
Message-ID: <20161020213904.vfvqqvtow4hycdmx@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161020213904.vfvqqvtow4hycdmx%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20161020165700.qwgli5mbya3d7nzz@LykOS.localdomain>

```
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:57:01PM -0400, Santiago Torres wrote:

> > I think you'd really just squash the various bits of this into your
> > series at the right spots, though I don't mind it on top, either.
> > 
> > The big question is to what degree we should care about the verify-tag
> > case. I don't think it's any worse off with this change than it is with
> > your series (its "kind" becomes "OTHER", but I don't think that is
> > actually used for display at all; the name remains the same). I'd be OK
> > with leaving it like this, as a known bug, until get_sha1_with_context()
> > learns to tell us about the ref. It's an unhandled corner case in a
> > brand-new feature, not a regression in an existing one.
> 
> I see now, I think I can sprinkle some of these changes on 2/7 then. The
> rest should be doing 4/7 and 5/7. Does this sound ok?

Yep, that sounds about right.

-Peff

```
