Re: [PATCH] ls-files: add %(skipworktree) atom to format option

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> 于2023年1月12日周四 18:15写道:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11 2023, ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget wrote:
>
> > From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Because sometimes we want to check if the files in the
> > index match the sparse specification by using
> > `git ls-files -t`, but `-t` option have semi-deprecated,
> >
> > So introduce "%(skipworktree)" atom to git ls-files
> > `--format` option. When we use this option, if the file
> > match the sparse specification and removed from working
> > tree, it will output "yes", othewise, output "no".
>
> Your code says "true" and "false", not "yes" or "no". Which is it ?:)
>

true/false. This is a typo.


> More generally it's unfortanute that we don't support the ref-filter.c
> formats more generally, then we could just make this 1 or the empty
> string, and you'd do:
>
>         %(if)%(skipworktree)%(then)true%(else)false%(end)
>
> Now, I don't think your change needs to be blocked by generalizing that
> if/else stuff in ref-filter, that would probably be some thousand-line
> series if we're lucky, even though it's a good eventual goal.
>

Aha, if we were to introduce %(if) %(else) in the ref-filter I'm sure that
would be a very complicated situation.

> But I feel strongly that you should not pick "true", or "false", or
> "yes" or "no", but rather "1" or "", here, as doing so will be
> future-proof when it comes to this format being compatible with using
> the ref-filter.c conditional support.
> >

Good point.

> > Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >     ls-files: add %(skipworktree) atom to format option
> >
> >     git ls-files -t is semi-deprecated, but in face we need to use -t option
> >     to check if a file in the index match the sparse specification.
> >
> >     So I think this feature can be migrated to git ls-files --format, add a
> >     %(skipworktree) atom to indicate whether the file in the index match the
> >     sparse specification and is removed from the working tree.
> >
> >     v1: add %(skipworktree) atom to git ls-files format option.
> >
> > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1458%2Fadlternative%2Fzh%2Fls-file-format-skipworktree-v1
> > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1458/adlternative/zh/ls-file-format-skipworktree-v1
> > Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1458
> >
> >  Documentation/git-ls-files.txt |  6 ++++++
> >  builtin/ls-files.c             |  3 +++
> >  t/t3013-ls-files-format.sh     | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
> > index 440043cdb8e..0e50307121d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
> > @@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ eolattr::
> >       that applies to the path.
> >  path::
> >       The pathname of the file which is recorded in the index.
> > +skipworktree::
> > +     If the file in the index marked with SKIP_WORKTREE bit.
> > +     It means the file do not match the sparse specification
> > +     and removed from working tree.
> > +     See link:technical/sparse-checkout.txt[sparse-checkout]
> > +     for more information.
>
> I likewise think this won't need to be blocked, but this is a sign that
> we should probably move these to the main doc namespace. See 1e2320161d2
> (docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5, 2022-08-04) (and
> commits before that) for prior art.
>
> But what we should fix here is that this ling is wrong, as you can see
> in that commit we need to link to the HTML docs for these (confusing as
> that is).
>
> Or (and I didn't check) if we never generate the *.html either for this
> particular one this link will always be broken. I.e. we won't install
> this, nor the HTML docs.

Yeah, you should be right: there may be a problem with the link here,
maybe this needs a patch to migrate technical/sparse-checkout.txt.

Thanks,
ZheNing Hu




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