73e25e7c (git --paginate: do not commit pager choice too early,
2010-06-26) failed to take some cases into account.
1b. Builtins that do not use RUN_SETUP (like git config) do
not find GIT_DIR set correctly when the pager is launched
from run_builtin(). So the core.pager configuration is
not honored from subdirectories of the toplevel for them.
4a. External git commands (like git request-pull) relied on the
early pager launch to take care of handling the -p option.
Ever since 73e25e7c, they do not honor the -p option at all.
4b. Commands invoked through ! aliases (like ls) were also relying
on the early pager launch.
Fix (4a) by launching the pager (if requested) before running such a
“dashed external”. For simplicity, this still does not search for a
.git directory before running the external command; when run from a
subdirectory of the toplevel, therefore, the “[core] pager”
configuration is still not honored.
Fix (4b) by launching pager if requested before carrying out such an
alias. Actually doing this has no effect, since the pager (if any)
would have already been launched in a failed attempt to try a
dashed external first. The choice-of-pager-not-honored-from-
subdirectory bug still applies here, too.
(1b) is not a regression. There is no need to fix it yet.
Noticed by Junio.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git is passed the --paginate option, starting up a pager requires
deciding what pager to start, which requires access to the core.pager
configuration.
At the relevant moment, the repository has not been searched for yet.
Attempting to access the configuration at this point results in
git_dir being set to .git [*], which is almost certainly not what was
wanted. In particular, when run from a subdirectory of the toplevel,
git --paginate does not respect the core.pager setting from the
current repository.
[*] unless GIT_DIR or GIT_CONFIG is set
So delay the pager startup when possible:
1. run_argv() already commits pager choice inside run_builtin() if a
command is found. For commands that use RUN_SETUP, waiting until
then fixes the problem described above: once git knows where to
look, it happily respects the core.pager setting.
2. list_common_cmds_help() prints out 29 lines and exits. This can
benefit from pagination, so we need to commit the pager choice
before writing this output.
Luckily ‘git’ without subcommand has no other reason to access a
repository, so it would be intuitive to ignore repository-local
configuration in this case. Simpler for now to choose a pager
using the funny code that notices a repository that happens to be
at .git. That this accesses a repository when it is very
convenient to is a bug but not an important one.
3. help_unknown_cmd() prints out a few lines to stderr. It is not
important to paginate this, so don’t.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git is passed the --paginate option, starting up a pager requires
deciding what pager to start, which requires access to the core.pager
configuration. If --paginate is handled before searching for the
git dir, this configuration will be missed.
In other words, with --paginate and only with --paginate, any
repository-local core.pager setting is being ignored [*].
[*] unless the git directory is ./.git or GIT_DIR or GIT_CONFIG was
set explicitly.
Add a test to demonstrate this counterintuitive behavior. Noticed
while reading over a patch by Duy that fixes it.
Cc: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test choice of pager at several stages of repository setup. This
provides some (admittedly uninteresting) examples to keep in mind when
considering changes to the setup procedure.
Improved-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current tests test pager configuration for ‘git log’, but other
commands use a different setup procedure and should therefore be
tested separately. Add a helper to make this easier.
This patch introduces the helper and changes some existing tests to
use it. The only functional change should be the introduction of ‘git
log - ’ to a few test descriptions.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As Brandon noticed, a regular expression match given to 'expr' is already
anchored at the beginning. Some versions of expr even complain about this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The unset builtin of Solaris's xpg4/sh returns non-zero if it is passed a
variable name which was not previously set. Since the unset is not likely
to fail, ignore its return status, but add a semicolon as a clue that the
'&&' was deliberately left off.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of these tests are removing files, environment variables, and
configuration that might interfere outside the test. Putting these
clean-up commands in the test (in the same spirit as v1.7.1-rc0~59,
2010-03-20) means that errors during setup will be caught quickly and
non-error text will be suppressed without -v.
While at it, apply some other minor fixes:
- do not rely on the shell to export variables defined with the same
command as a function call
- avoid whitespace immediately after the > redirection operator, for
consistency with the style of other tests
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pagers that do not consume their input are dangerous: for example,
$ GIT_PAGER=: git log
$ echo $?
141
$
The only reason these tests were able to work before was that
'git log' would write to the pipe (and not fill it) before the
pager had time to terminate and close the pipe.
Fix it by using a program that consumes its input, namely wc (as
suggested by Johannes).
Reported-by: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Testing pagination requires (fake or real) access to a terminal so we
can see whether the pagination automatically kicks in, which makes it
hard to get good coverage when running tests without --verbose. There
are a number of ways to work around that:
- Replace all isatty calls with calls to a custom xisatty wrapper
that usually checks for a terminal but can be overridden for tests.
This would be workable, but it would require implementing xisatty
separately in three languages (C, shell, and perl) and making sure
that any code that is to be tested always uses the wrapper.
- Redirect stdout to /dev/tty. This would be problematic because
there might be no terminal available, and even if a terminal is
available, it might not be appropriate to spew output to it.
- Create a new pseudo-terminal on the fly and capture its output.
This patch implements the third approach.
The new test-terminal.perl helper uses IO::Pty from Expect.pm to create
a terminal and executes the program specified by its arguments with
that terminal as stdout. If the IO::Pty module is missing or not
working on a system, the test script will maintain its old behavior
(skipping most of its tests unless GIT_TEST_OPTS includes --verbose).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git’s automatic pagination support has some subtleties. Add some
tests to make sure we don’t break:
- when git will use a pager by default;
- the effect of the --paginate and --no-pager options;
- the effect of pagination on use of color;
- how the choice of pager is configured.
This does not yet test:
- use of pager by scripted commands (git svn and git am);
- effect of the pager.* configuration variables;
- setting of the LESS variable.
Some features involve checking whether stdout is a terminal, so many
of these tests are skipped unless output is passed through to the
terminal (i.e., unless $GIT_TEST_OPTS includes --verbose).
The immediate purpose for these tests was to avoid making things worse
after the breakage from my jn/editor-pager series (see commit 376f39,
2009-11-20). Thanks to Sebastian Celis <sebastian@sebastiancelis.com>
for the report.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
