Re: [PATCH 2/4] http-fetch: allow custom index-pack args

2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-02-17 · open the first message on its own page

Re: [PATCH 2/4] http-fetch: allow custom index-pack args

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-16 22:58:25

Josh Steadmon [off-list ref] writes:
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+--index-pack-args=<args>::
+	For internal use only. The command to run on the contents of the
+	downloaded pack. Arguments are URL-encoded separated by spaces.
I'm a bit skeptical of using URL encoding to work around embedded
spaces. I believe in Emily's config-based hooks series, she wrote an
argument parser to pull repeated arguments into a strvec, could you do
something like that here?

I'm sympathetic to the idea that since this is an internal-only flag, we
can be a bit weird with the argument format, though.
We tend to prefer quote.c::sq_quote*() suite of quoting; does this
codepath have very different constraints that require different
encoding?

Thanks.

Re: [PATCH 2/4] http-fetch: allow custom index-pack args

From: Jonathan Tan <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-17 19:47:18

Josh Steadmon [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
quoted
+--index-pack-args=<args>::
+	For internal use only. The command to run on the contents of the
+	downloaded pack. Arguments are URL-encoded separated by spaces.
I'm a bit skeptical of using URL encoding to work around embedded
spaces. I believe in Emily's config-based hooks series, she wrote an
argument parser to pull repeated arguments into a strvec, could you do
something like that here?

I'm sympathetic to the idea that since this is an internal-only flag, we
can be a bit weird with the argument format, though.
We tend to prefer quote.c::sq_quote*() suite of quoting; does this
codepath have very different constraints that require different
encoding?
My main issue was that I needed to join arbitrary strings and then split
them, which is why I URL-encoded them (so that they would no longer
contain spaces) and then used spaces as the "join" separator. With
Josh's suggestion, I wouldn't need any sort of encoding or quoting, so I
think I'll use that.
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