Re: [PATCH 1/5] refs.c: allow passing raw git_committer_info as email to _update_reflog

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

quoted

Add a new flag REFLOG_EMAIL_IS_COMMITTER to _update_reflog to tell it
that what we pass in as email is already the fully baked committer string
we can use as-is.

With and without the new flag, the 'email' argument has two different
meanings:

 * with the new flag, it should be an ident string, like
   'Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] 1406251347 -0700'

 * without it, it should be the name-part of an ident string,
   like 'Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref]

In neither case is it an email address.  This seems unnecessarily
confusing.

True.

I have changed it to to be a field named 'id' instead of 'email'.
I also added changes to update other places in the code to change the
name for this to 'id' too.

It is confusing. I too were caught by this a while back when just
based on the name for the callback iterators
I assumed what was passed there was an email address while it was not.
I didn't fix that then but I fixed it now.


Thanks!

Is the caller responsible for checking the argument for validity?
Do callers do so?  Is this performance-critical or could the
transaction_update_reflog function do a sanity-check?

I have added basic sanity checks, such as required strings are non-NULL.

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quoted

 /*
  * Append a reflog entry for refname. If the REFLOG_TRUNCATE flag is set
  * this update will first truncate the reflog before writing the entry.
  * If msg is NULL no update will be written to the log.
  */
 int transaction_update_reflog(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
                               const char *refname,
                               const unsigned char *new_sha1,
                               const unsigned char *old_sha1,
                               const char *email,
                               unsigned long timestamp, int tz,
                               const char *msg, int flags,
                               struct strbuf *err);

This is a lot of parameters, some optional, not all documented.  Would
it make sense to pack some into a struct?

I changed email,timestamp,tz into a struct
/*
 * Committer data provided to reflog updates.
 * If flags contain REFLOG_COMMITTER_DATA_IS_VALID then
 * then the structure contains a prebaked committer string
 * just like git_committer_info() would return.
 *
 * If flags does not contain REFLOG_COMMITTER_DATA_IS_VALID
 * then the committer info string will be generated using the passed
 * email, timestamp and tz fields.
 * This is useful for example from reflog iterators where you are passed
 * these fields individually and not as a prebaked git_committer_info()
 * string.
 */
struct reflog_committer_info {
const char *committer_info;

const char *id;
unsigned long timestamp;
int tz;
};

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan