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Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: add help_unknown_ref

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:06

Vikrant Varma wrote:
Give better advice when trying to merge a branch that doesn't exist. If
the branch exists in any remotes, display a list of suggestions.
Interesting.  Thanks for working on this.

You say advice, but you're not invoking advise() or guarding the
advice with an advice.* -- the advice is undoubtedly helpful, but not
everyone wants to see it.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 02ba043..faf18b9 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include "string-list.h"
 #include "column.h"
 #include "version.h"
+#include "refs.h"

 void add_cmdname(struct cmdnames *cmds, const char *name, int len)
 {
@@ -404,3 +405,46 @@ int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        printf("git version %s\n", git_version_string);
        return 0;
 }
+
+struct similar_ref_cb {
I see that there are other structs in our codebase suffixing _cb, to
indicate "callback data".  I normally reserve _cb for callback
functions.
+        const char *base_ref;
+        struct string_list similar_refs;
Okay, so you might have more than one matching candidate.
+static int append_similar_ref(const char* refname, const unsigned char *sha1, int flags, void *cb_data)
+{
+        int i;
+        struct similar_ref_cb *cb = (struct similar_ref_cb *)(cb_data);
+        for (i = strlen(refname); refname[i] != '/'; i--)
+               ;
Er, what is this?  A re-implementation of strrchr()?
+        /* A remote branch of the same name is deemed similar */
+        if (!prefixcmp(refname, "refs/remotes/") && !strcmp(refname + i + 1, cb->base_ref))
+               string_list_append(&(cb->similar_refs), refname + 13);
What is 13?  Please use strlen("refs/remotes/") for readability.

I don't like the + i + 1 thing, but you should be able to get rid of
it with strrchr().
+void help_unknown_ref(const char* ref) {
+        int i;
+        struct similar_ref_cb ref_cb;
+        ref_cb.similar_refs = (struct string_list)STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
Why are you casting STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP?
+        ref_cb.base_ref = ref;
+
+        for_each_ref(append_similar_ref, &ref_cb);
+
+        fprintf_ln(stderr, _("fatal: %s - not something we can merge"), ref);
Hm, "fatal: " was emitted by die() earlier.  I wonder if something
like error() will be nicer than hard-coding "fatal: ".
+        if (ref_cb.similar_refs.nr > 0) {
+               fprintf_ln(stderr,
+                          Q_("\nDid you mean this?",
+                             "\nDid you mean one of these?",
+                             ref_cb.similar_refs.nr));
Hm, why did you use Q_?
+               for (i = 0; i < ref_cb.similar_refs.nr; i++)
+                       fprintf(stderr, "\t%s\n", ref_cb.similar_refs.items[i].string);
+        }
+        exit(1);
die() exits with 128, no?  Why are you exiting with 1 now?
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