Re: [PATCH 1/3] rebase: avoid non-function use of "return" on FreeBSD

On Apr 11, 2014, at 10:30, Matthieu Moy wrote:

"Kyle J. McKay" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

There are already nested functions with file inclusion between both
levels of nesting in git-rebase--interactive.sh and git-rebase--
merge.sh now, so it's not introducing anything new.

OK, so it's less serious than I thought. But still, we're  
introducing a
function with 3 levels of nesting, split accross files, in an area  
where
we know that at least one shell is buggy ...

Currently in maint:

The current code in maint does this:

git-rebase.sh: top-level
   git-rebase.sh: run_specific_rebase()
     git-rebase.sh: run_specific_rebase_internal() -- contains "dot"
       git-rebase--interactive.sh: top-level (using --continue or -- 
skip)
         git-rebase--interactive.sh: do_rest
           git-rebase--interactive.sh: do_next
             git-rebase--interactive.sh: record_in_rewritten
               git-rebase--interactive.sh: flush_rewritten_pending

So I really do not see the additional level of nesting as an issue  
since we've already got much more than 3 levels of nesting going on  
now.  If nesting was going to be a problem, something would have  
broken already.  In fact, since the follow on patch removes the  
run_specific_rebase_internal function what we would have after the  
originally proposed first two patches is:

git-rebase.sh: top-level
   git-rebase.sh: run_specific_rebase() -- contains "dot"
     git-rebase--interactive.sh: top-level (using --continue or --skip)
       git-rebase--interactive.sh: git_rebase__interactive
         git-rebase--interactive.sh: do_rest
           git-rebase--interactive.sh: do_next
             git-rebase--interactive.sh: record_in_rewritten
               git-rebase--interactive.sh: flush_rewritten_pending

Which has exactly the same nesting depth albeit the "dot" has moved up  
one level.

quoted

quoted

IOW, why not move the whole run_specific_rebase_internal function to
git-rebase--$type?

So what change are you proposing exactly?

Something along the lines of this:

The problem with these changes, particularly the git-rebase-- 
interactive.sh one is that a bunch of code is still run when the file  
is "dot" included.  With the changes to git-rebase.sh, that code will  
now run regardless of the action and it will run before it would have  
now.  So if any of the variables it sets affect the functions like  
read_basic_state or finish_rebase (they don't currently appear to),  
then there's a potential for new bugs.  That initial code would not  
previously have run in the --abort case at all.

But, you say the tests pass with those changes, so the changes are  
probably okay.  However, they create a potential situation where some  
code is added to the top of one of the git-rebase--$type.sh scripts  
and suddenly git rebase --abort stops working right because that code  
is being run when it shouldn't or the operation of read_basic_state  
and/or finish_rebase is adversely affected.  Hopefully the rebase  
tests would catch any such issue right away though.

So, in light of the fact that function nesting seems to be a non-issue  
here, and it seems to me the originally proposed changes have much  
less potential to introduce breakage either now or in the future, I  
still prefer them.

--Kyle