On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:57 PM Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net> wrote:
>
> It seems that `git-grep -lz` behaves differently depending on whether
> it is inside a subdirectory:
Show 12 quoted lines
> $ git grep -lz content
> an "example".txt^@nested/other "example".txt^@
>
> Note that, as expected, the files are NUL-terminated and not wrapped
> in quotes. ("^@" represents NUL byte.)
>
> $ cd nested
> $ git grep -lz content
> "other \"example\".txt"^@
>
> As soon as we move into a subdirectory, files are wrapped in quotes
> and contain escapes, despite the "-z" switch.I think this is a bug in "plain" git-grep, not in -z specifically. In some git commands, -z has the effect of unquoting the output paths. For example, the docs for git-ls-files says: "-z: \0 line termination on output and do not quote filenames." In git-grep, however, the -z doc entry only says: "Output \0 instead of the character that normally follows a file name."
So -z does not seem to affect quoting in git-grep. But should we change this, to quote unusual pathnames (relative or not) by default, and let -z fall back to the old behavior? This would be more consistent with other commands such as git-ls-files and to the core.quotePath setting.
However, perhaps output paths are never intended to be displayed quoted in git-grep (with or without -z) in order to be consistent with GNU grep. I don't know which of these options is correct (if any), so I would love to hear what others have to say about it.
But if the second is correct, I think we can use the following patch to solve the reported bug:
(I'm just wondering: should we also add the information at core.quotePath that git-grep does not comply with this setting, to be consistent with GNU grep {or for any other reason}?)
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Subject: [RFC PATCH] grep: fix inconsistent output of unusual pathnames
When grepping from the repository root, paths that contain unusual characters are not output quoted. However, they are quoted when grepping from a subdir without --full-name. For example:
$ echo content >'an "unusual" name.txt' $ mkdir subdir $ echo content >'subdir/another "unusual" name.txt' $ git add . $ git commit -m content
Then: $ git grep content an "unusual" name.txt:1:content subdir/another "unusual" name.txt:1:content
But: $ cd subdir $ git grep content "another \"unusual\" name.txt":1:content
Fix this inconsistency by not quoting unusual pathnames (relative or not), which is also the default behavior in GNU grep. Also add some tests to prevent regressions.
Note: some non-related tests that compare git-grep output against
git-ls-files also had to be modified. This is because the testing repo
now contains some unusual pathnames. And git-ls-files will quote such
paths by default, whereas git-grep won't.
Reported-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
---
builtin/grep.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
t/t7810-grep.sh | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 99e2685090..ca21f98315 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -303,8 +303,12 @@ static int grep_oid(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct object_id *oid,
struct grep_source gs;
if (opt->relative && opt->prefix_length) {
- quote_path_relative(filename + tree_name_len, opt->prefix, &pathbuf);
- strbuf_insert(&pathbuf, 0, filename, tree_name_len);
+ struct strbuf rel_buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+ const char *rel_name = relative_path(filename + tree_name_len,
+ opt->prefix, &rel_buf);
+ strbuf_add(&pathbuf, filename, tree_name_len);
+ strbuf_addstr(&pathbuf, rel_name);
+ strbuf_release(&rel_buf);
} else {
strbuf_addstr(&pathbuf, filename);
}
@@ -333,13 +337,14 @@ static int grep_file(struct grep_opt *opt, const char *filename)
{
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
struct grep_source gs;
+ const char *gs_name;
if (opt->relative && opt->prefix_length)
- quote_path_relative(filename, opt->prefix, &buf);
+ gs_name = relative_path(filename, opt->prefix, &buf);
else
- strbuf_addstr(&buf, filename);
+ gs_name = filename;
- grep_source_init(&gs, GREP_SOURCE_FILE, buf.buf, filename, filename);
+ grep_source_init(&gs, GREP_SOURCE_FILE, gs_name, filename, filename);
strbuf_release(&buf);
if (num_threads > 1) {
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index 7d7b396c23..23911a3574 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ test_expect_success setup '
# Still a no-op.
function dummy() {}
EOF
+ echo unusual >"\"unusual\" pathname" &&
+ echo unusual >"t/\"unusual\" pathname2" &&
git add . &&
test_tick &&
git commit -m initial
@@ -481,6 +483,26 @@ do
git grep --count -h -e b $H -- ab >actual &&
test_cmp expected actual
'
+
+ test_expect_success "grep $L should not quote unusual pathnames" '
+ cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+ ${HC}"unusual" pathname:unusual
+ ${HC}t/"unusual" pathname2:unusual
+ EOF
+ git grep unusual $H >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+ '
+
+ test_expect_success "grep $L should not quote unusual relative pathnames" '
+ cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+ ${HC}"unusual" pathname2:unusual
+ EOF
+ (
+ cd t &&
+ git grep unusual $H
+ ) >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+ '
done
cat >expected <<EOF
@@ -500,7 +522,8 @@ test_expect_success 'grep -c -C' '
'
test_expect_success 'grep -L -C' '
- git ls-files >expected &&
+ git ls-files -z >ls-files-z &&
+ tr "\0" "\n" <ls-files-z >expected &&
git grep -L -C1 nonexistent_string >actual &&
test_cmp expected actual
'
@@ -1686,7 +1709,9 @@ test_expect_success 'grep does not report i-t-a with -L --cached' '
echo "intend to add this" >intend-to-add &&
git add -N intend-to-add &&
test_when_finished "git rm -f intend-to-add" &&
- git ls-files | grep -v "^intend-to-add\$" >expected &&
+ git ls-files -z >ls-files-z &&
+ tr "\0" "\n" <ls-files-z >files &&
+ grep -v "^intend-to-add\$" files >expected &&
git grep -L --cached "nonexistent_string" >actual &&
test_cmp expected actual
'
@@ -1696,7 +1721,9 @@ test_expect_success 'grep does not report i-t-a and assume unchanged with -L' '
git add -N intend-to-add-assume-unchanged &&
test_when_finished "git rm -f intend-to-add-assume-unchanged" &&
git update-index --assume-unchanged intend-to-add-assume-unchanged &&
- git ls-files | grep -v "^intend-to-add-assume-unchanged\$" >expected &&
+ git ls-files -z >ls-files-z &&
+ tr "\0" "\n" <ls-files-z >files &&
+ grep -v "^intend-to-add-assume-unchanged\$" files >expected &&
git grep -L "nonexistent_string" >actual &&
test_cmp expected actual
'
--
2.26.0
Greg Hurrell
