On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 13:46 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:24:07AM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote: > > > Updated to include changes due to Junio's feedback. This has not resolved > > whether we should fail on a configuration error or simply warn. It appears that > > we actually seem to error out more than warn, so I am unsure what the correct > > action is here. > > Yeah, we're quite inconsistent there. In some cases we silently ignore > something unknown (e.g., a color.diff.* slot that we do not understand), > but in most cases if it is a config key we understand but a value we do > not, we complain and die. > > It's probably user-unfriendly to be silent for those cases, though. The > user gets no feedback on why their config value is doing nothing. > > I tend to think that warning is not much better than erroring out. It is > helpful if you are running a single-shot of an old version (which is > something that I do a lot when testing old versions), but would quickly > become irritating if you were actually using an old version of git > day-to-day. > > I dunno. Maybe it is worth making life easier for people in the former > category. > > > +static int parse_sort_string(const char *arg, int *sort) > > +{ > > + int type = 0, flags = 0; > > + > > + if (skip_prefix(arg, "-", &arg)) > > + flags |= REVERSE_SORT; > > + > > + if (skip_prefix(arg, "version:", &arg) || skip_prefix(arg, "v:", &arg)) > > + type = VERCMP_SORT; > > + else > > + type = STRCMP_SORT; > > + > > + if (strcmp(arg, "refname")) > > + return error(_("unsupported sort specification %s"), arg); > > + > > + *sort = (type | flags); > > + > > + return 0; > > +} > > Regardless of how we handle the error, I think this version that > assembles the final bitfield at the end is easier to read than the > original. > Yes, I figured setting it up all at the end makes more sense, and is less prone to subtle bugs, since we don't directly modify sort using |= or relying on particular values of sort initially. I personally prefer error out on options, even though it can make it a bit more difficult, though as far as I know unknown fields simply warn or are ignored. (ie: old versions of git just ignore unknown fields in configuration). It's possible we should warn instead though, so that older gits work with new sorts that they don't understand. I am ok with warning but I don't know the best practice for how to warn here instead of failing. Returning error causes a fatal "bad config" message. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jake > -Peff > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ��.n��������+%������w��{.n��������n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�