The `trailer.<token>.command` configuration variable
specifies a command (run via the shell, so it does not have
to be a single name or path to the command, but can be a
shell script), and the first occurrence of substring $ARG is
replaced with the value given to the `interpret-trailer`
command for the token in a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument.
This has three downsides:
* The use of $ARG in the mechanism misleads the users that
the value is passed in the shell variable, and tempt them
to use $ARG more than once, but that would not work, as
the second and subsequent $ARG are not replaced.
* Because $ARG is textually replaced without regard to the
shell language syntax, even '$ARG' (inside a single-quote
pair), which a user would expect to stay intact, would be
replaced, and worse, if the value had an unmatched single
quote (imagine a name like "O'Connor", substituted into
NAME='$ARG' to make it NAME='O'Connor'), it would result in
a broken command that is not syntactically correct (or
worse).
* The first occurrence of substring `$ARG` will be replaced
with the empty string, in the command when the command is
first called to add a trailer with the specified <token>.
This is a bad design, the nature of automatic execution
causes it to add a trailer that we don't expect.
Introduce a new `trailer.<token>.cmd` configuration that
takes higher precedence to deprecate and eventually remove
`trailer.<token>.command`, which passes the value as an
argument to the command. Instead of "$ARG", users can
refer to the value as positional argument, $1, in their
scripts. At the same time, in order to allow
`git interpret-trailers` to better simulate the behavior
of `git command -s`, 'trailer.<token>.cmd' will not
automatically execute.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the original documentation of `trailer.<token>.command`,
some descriptions are easily misunderstood. So let's modify
it to increase its readability.
In addition, clarify that `$ARG` in command can only be
replaced once.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This description line is shown in 'git help -a' and all other commands
description starts with an uppercase character. This just makes that
printout a bit nicer.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git interpret-trailers" and its underlying machinery had a buggy
code that attempted to ignore patch text after commit log message,
which triggered in various codepaths that will always get the log
message alone and never get such an input.
* jk/trailer-fixes:
append_signoff: use size_t for string offsets
sequencer: ignore "---" divider when parsing trailers
pretty, ref-filter: format %(trailers) with no_divider option
interpret-trailers: allow suppressing "---" divider
interpret-trailers: tighten check for "---" patch boundary
trailer: pass process_trailer_opts to trailer_info_get()
trailer: use size_t for iterating trailer list
trailer: use size_t for string offsets
Even with the newly-tightened "---" parser, it's still
possible for a commit message to trigger a false positive if
it contains something like "--- foo". If the caller knows
that it has only a single commit message, it can now tell us
with the "--no-divider" option, eliminating any false
positives.
If we were designing this from scratch, I'd probably make
this the default. But we've advertised the "---" behavior in
the documentation since interpret-trailers has existed.
Since it's meant to be scripted, breaking that would be a
bad idea.
Note that the logic is in the underlying trailer.c code,
which is used elsewhere. The default there will keep the
current behavior, but many callers will benefit from setting
this new option. That's left for future patches.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interpret-trailers command accepts not only raw commit
messages, but it also can manipulate trailers in
format-patch output. That means it must find the "---"
boundary separating the commit message from the patch.
However, it does so by looking for any line starting with
"---", regardless of whether there is further content.
This is overly lax compared to the parsing done in
mailinfo.c's patchbreak(), and may cause false positives
(e.g., t/perf output tables uses dashes; if you cut and
paste them into your commit message, it fools the parser).
We could try to reuse patchbreak() here, but it actually has
several heuristics that are not of interest to us (e.g.,
matching "diff -" without a three-dash separator or even a
CVS "Index:" line). We're not interested in taking in
whatever random cruft people may send, but rather handling
git-formatted patches.
Note that the existing documentation was written in a loose
way, so technically we are changing the behavior from what
it said. But this should implement the original intent in a
more accurate way.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The standard for command documentation synopses appears to be:
[...] means optional
<...> means replaceable
[<...>] means both optional and replaceable
So fix a number of doc pages that use incorrect variations of the
above.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the description of git interpret-trailers, we describe "a group…of
lines" that have certain characteristics. Ensure both options
describing this group use a singular verb for parallelism.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few
other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
trailer lines from a commit log message.
* jk/trailers-parse:
doc/interpret-trailers: fix "the this" typo
pretty: support normalization options for %(trailers)
t4205: refactor %(trailers) tests
pretty: move trailer formatting to trailer.c
interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option
interpret-trailers: add an option to unfold values
interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers
interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers
trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct
The last few commits have added command line options that
can turn interpret-trailers into a parsing tool. Since
they'd most often be used together, let's provide a
convenient single option for callers to invoke this mode.
This is implemented as a callback rather than a boolean so
that its effect is applied immediately, as if those options
had been specified. Later options can then override them.
E.g.:
git interpret-trailers --parse --no-unfold
would work.
Let's also update the documentation to make clear that this
parsing mode behaves quite differently than the normal
"add trailers to the input" mode.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of "--only-trailers" is to give a caller an output
that's easy for them to parse. Getting rid of the
non-trailer material helps, but we still may see more
complicated syntax like whitespace continuation. Let's add
an option to unfold any continuation, giving the output as a
single "key: value" line per trailer.
As a bonus, this could be used even without --only-trailers
to clean up unusual formatting in the incoming data.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be useful to invoke interpret-trailers for the
primary purpose of parsing existing trailers. But in that
case, we don't want to apply existing ifMissing or ifExists
rules from the config. Let's add a special mode where we
avoid applying those rules. Coupled with --only-trailers,
this gives us a reasonable parsing tool.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In theory it's easy for any reader who wants to parse
trailers to do so. But there are a lot of subtle corner
cases around what counts as a trailer, when the trailer
block begins and ends, etc. Since interpret-trailers already
has our parsing logic, let's let callers ask it to just
output the trailers.
They still have to parse the "key: value" lines, but at
least they can ignore all of the other corner cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Self-explanatory... trailer.ifexists is documented with the
right name, but after a while it switches to ifexist.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow using non-default values for trailers without having to set
them up in .gitconfig first. For example, if you have the following
configuration
trailer.signed-off-by.where = end
you may use "--where before" when a patch author forgets his
Signed-off-by and provides it in a separate email. Likewise for
--if-exists and --if-missing
Reverting to the behavior specified by .gitconfig is done with
--no-where, --no-if-exists and --no-if-missing.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The manual for "git interpret-trailers" mentioned a non-existing
literal `overwrite` for its config option `trailer.ifexists`. The
correct name for that choice is `replace`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 1462450 ("trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer block",
2016-10-21), functionality was added (and tested [1]) to allow
non-trailer lines in trailer blocks, as long as those blocks contain at
least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer, and consists of at
least 25% trailers. The documentation was updated to mention this new
functionality, but did not mention "user-configured trailer".
Further update the documentation to also mention "user-configured
trailer".
[1] "with non-trailer lines mixed with a configured trailer" in
t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, interpret-trailers requires that a trailer be only on 1 line.
For example:
a: first line
second line
would be interpreted as one trailer line followed by one non-trailer line.
Make interpret-trailers support RFC 822-style folding, treating those
lines as one logical trailer.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, interpret-trailers allows leading whitespace in trailer
lines. This leads to false positives, especially for quoted lines or
bullet lists.
Forbid leading whitespace in trailers.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, interpret-trailers requires all lines of a trailer block to
be trailers (or comments) - if not it would not identify that block as a
trailer block, and thus create its own trailer block, inserting a blank
line. For example:
echo -e "\nSigned-off-by: x\nnot trailer" |
git interpret-trailers --trailer "c: d"
would result in:
Signed-off-by: x
not trailer
c: d
Relax the definition of a trailer block to require that the trailers (i)
are all trailers, or (ii) contain at least one Git-generated trailer and
consists of at least 25% trailers.
Signed-off-by: x
not trailer
c: d
(i) is the existing functionality. (ii) allows arbitrary lines to be
included in trailer blocks, like those in [1], and still allow
interpret-trailers to be used.
[1]
e7d316a02f
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.
This was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt
and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a command line option --in-place to support in-place editing akin to
sed -i. This allows to write commands like the following:
git interpret-trailers --trailer "X: Y" a.txt > b.txt && mv b.txt a.txt
in a more concise way:
git interpret-trailers --trailer "X: Y" --in-place a.txt
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:
- Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
- Spell Linux as Capitalized;
- Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at it add git-interpret-trailers to "command-list.txt".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
