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>
The interpret-trailers program does not do the usual loading of config
via git_default_config(), and thus does not respect many of the usual
options. In particular, we will not load core.commentChar, even though
the underlying trailer code uses its value.
This can be seen in the accompanying test, where setting
core.commentChar to anything besides "#" results in a failure to treat
the comments correctly.
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
"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 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>
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>
If a commit message is edited with the "verbose" option, the buffer
will have a cut line and diff after the log message, like so:
my subject
# ------------------------ >8 ------------------------
# Do not touch the line above.
# Everything below will be removed.
diff --git a/foo.txt b/foo.txt
index 5716ca5..7601807 100644
--- a/foo.txt
+++ b/foo.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bar
+baz
"git interpret-trailers" is unaware of the cut line, and assumes the
trailer block would be at the end of the whole thing. This can easily
be seen with:
$ GIT_EDITOR='git interpret-trailers --in-place --trailer Acked-by:me' \
git commit --amend -v
Teach "git interpret-trailers" to notice the cut-line and ignore the
remainder of the input when looking for a place to add new trailer
block. This makes it consistent with how "git commit -v -s" inserts a
new Signed-off-by: line.
This can be done by the same logic as the existing helper function,
wt_status_truncate_message_at_cut_line(), uses, but it wants the caller
to pass a strbuf to it. Because the function ignore_non_trailer() used
by the command takes a <pointer, length> pair, not a strbuf, steal the
logic from wt_status_truncate_message_at_cut_line() to create a new
wt_status_locate_end() helper function that takes <pointer, length>
pair, and make ignore_non_trailer() call it to help "interpret-trailers".
Since there is only one caller of wt_status_truncate_message_at_cut_line()
in cmd_commit(), rewrite it to call wt_status_locate_end() helper instead
and remove the old helper that no longer has any caller.
Signed-off-by: Brian Malehorn <bmalehorn@gmail.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>
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>
The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of
a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer
block.
* cc/trailers-corner-case-fix:
trailer: support multiline title
We currently ignore the first line passed to `git interpret-trailers`,
when looking for the beginning of the trailers.
Unfortunately this does not work well when a commit is created with a
line break in the title, using for example the following command:
git commit -m 'place of
code: change we made'
That's why instead of ignoring only the first line, it is better to
ignore the first paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"interpret-trailers" helper mistook a single-liner log message that
has a colon as the end of existing trailer.
* cc/trailers-corner-case-fix:
trailer: retitle a test and correct an in-comment message
trailer: ignore first line of message
When looking for the start of the trailers in the message
we are passed, we should ignore the first line of the message.
The reason is that if we are passed a patch or commit message
then the first line should be the patch title.
If we are passed only trailers we can expect that they start
with an empty line that can be ignored too.
This way we can properly process commit messages that have
only one line with something that looks like a trailer, for
example like "area of code: change we made".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure we look for trailers before any conflict line
by reusing the ignore_non_trailer() function.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
And add a few other tests for some special cases.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
