On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 6:03 PM Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:32:51PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > Fix this by checking negative refspecs inside of get_ref_states. For
> > each ref which matches a negative refspec, copy it into a "skipped" list
> > and remove it from the fetch map. This allows us to show the following
> > output instead:
>
> Seems sensible.
>
> > + /* handle negative refspecs first */
> > + for (tail = &fetch_map; *tail; ) {
> > + ref = *tail;
> > +
> > + if (omit_name_by_refspec(ref->name, &states->remote->fetch)) {
> > + string_list_append(&states->skipped, abbrev_branch(ref->name));
> > +
> > + /* Matched a negative refspec, so remove this ref from
> > + * consideration for being a new or tracked ref.
> > + */
> > + *tail = ref->next;
> > + free(ref->peer_ref);
> > + free(ref);
> > + } else {
> > + tail = &ref->next;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
>
> Not being overly familiar with the "git remote show" code, this
> implementation looks very reasonable to me. If we see a negative
> refspec, we remove it from the fetch_map list and append it to the
> skipped list. Otherwise, we increment our pointer, and continue along
> until we reach the end of the list.
>
The specific way the loop works is similar to other ref looping code
but it feels a little odd to me. Still, it seems to be the right
approach overall.
> > +test_expect_success 'show with negative refspecs' '
> > + test_when_finished "git -C test config --fixed-value --unset remote.origin.fetch ^refs/heads/main" &&
> > + (
> > + cd test &&
> > + git config --add remote.origin.fetch ^refs/heads/main &&
>
> Doing "git config --unset" outside of the subshell could be avoided by
> ditching the subshell altogether, perhaps with something like:
>
> test_config -C test remote.origin.fetch ^refs/heads/main &&
> git -C test remote show origin >actual &&
> test_cmp test/expect actual
>
I still think that removing the subshell is a good idea here. I'll
investigate this.
I also wonder if it would be difficult to enable "--add" semantics for
test_config.
> Thanks,
> Taylor
