Hi, Jonathan Tan wrote: > Refactor, into a common function, the version and capability negotiation > done when invoking a long-running process as a clean or smudge filter. > This will be useful for other Git code that needs to interact similarly > with a long-running process. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- Sounds like a sensible thing to do. [...] > --- a/sub-process.h > +++ b/sub-process.h > @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ struct subprocess_entry { > struct child_process process; > }; > > +struct subprocess_capability { > + const char *name; > + unsigned int flag; What does this flag represent? What values can it have? A comment might help. [...] > @@ -41,6 +46,19 @@ static inline struct child_process *subprocess_get_child_process( > return &entry->process; > } > > +/* > + * Perform the handshake to a long-running process as described in the > + * gitattributes documentation using the given requested versions and > + * capabilities. The "versions" and "capabilities" parameters are arrays > + * terminated by a 0 or blank struct. > + */ > +int subprocess_handshake(struct subprocess_entry *entry, > + const char *welcome_prefix, > + int *versions, > + int *chosen_version, > + struct subprocess_capability *capabilities, > + unsigned int *supported_capabilities); > + Is there a more precise pointer within the gitattributes documentation that describes what this does? I searched for "handshake" and found nothing. Is the "Long Running Filter Process" section where I should have started? The API docs for this header are currently in Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt. Perhaps these docs should also go there, or, even better, the docs in Documentation/technical/ could move to this header in a preparatory patch. Aside (not about this patch): why is the subprocess object called struct subprocess_entry? Would it make sense to rename it to struct subprocess? Back to this function. Is this a function I should only call once, when first launching a subprocess, or can I call it again later? A note about suggested usage might help. [...] > --- a/t/t0021-conversion.sh > +++ b/t/t0021-conversion.sh > @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ test_expect_success PERL 'invalid process filter must fail (and not hang!)' ' > > cp "$TEST_ROOT/test.o" test.r && > test_must_fail git add . 2>git-stderr.log && > - grep "does not support filter protocol version" git-stderr.log > + grep "expected git-filter-server" git-stderr.log This error message looks a little less friendly than the old one. Is that okay because it is not supposed to happen in practice? [...] > --- a/convert.c > +++ b/convert.c > @@ -512,62 +512,15 @@ static struct hashmap subprocess_map; > > static int start_multi_file_filter_fn(struct subprocess_entry *subprocess) > { > - int err; > - struct cmd2process *entry = (struct cmd2process *)subprocess; [... many lines snipped ...] > - return err; > + static int versions[] = {2, 0}; > + static struct subprocess_capability capabilities[] = { > + {"clean", CAP_CLEAN}, {"smudge", CAP_SMUDGE}, {NULL, 0} > + }; > + struct cmd2process *entry = (struct cmd2process *)subprocess; > + > + return subprocess_handshake(subprocess, "git-filter-", versions, NULL, > + capabilities, > + &entry->supported_capabilities); > } API looks nice. [...] > --- a/sub-process.c > +++ b/sub-process.c > @@ -105,3 +105,97 @@ int subprocess_start(struct hashmap *hashmap, struct subprocess_entry *entry, co Implementation looks sane from a quick glance. Thanks, Jonathan