Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> writes:
> Contrary to its description, the output of
>
> $ git status --porcelain
>
> now depends on the configuration variables status.short and
> status.branch.
Ouch, indeed :-(.
> The correct solution is therefore to skip the config parser completely
> when --porcelain is given. Unfortunately, to determine that --porcelain
> is given, we have to run the command-line option parser. Running the
> command-line option parser before the config parser is undesirable, as
> configuration variables would override options on the command-line. As
> a fair compromise, check that argv[1] is equal to the string
> "--porcelain" and skip the config parser in this case.
I really don't like this. If we go for a solution looking explicitely at
argv[], we should at least iterate over it (also not satisfactory
because --porcelain could be the argument of another switch).
I think it's possible to have an actually robust solution, either
* running the CLI parser after, if --porcelain is given, reset the
effect of the variables. Not very clean because we'd have to reset all
the variables to their default, and there is a risk of forgetting one.
* Or, running the CLI parser before, but with different variables to
specify what the command-line says and what will actually be done,
with something like
actual_short = 0;
switch (command_line_short) {
case yes:
actual_short = 1;
break;
case no:
actual_short = 0;
break;
case unset: /* nothing */
}
switch (config_short) {
// same
}
> ---
> builtin/commit.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
No time to contribute one now myself, but this would really deserve a
test.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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