Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-08 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:23:53AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > If this turns out to be a common use-case perhaps the easiest way to > > support that would be to make the hashmap (optionally?) ordered, as Ruby > > 1.9 did with their hash implementation: > >

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-07 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:32:41PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > I think Stefan pointed out a "case 4" in the other part of the thread: > > ones where we really care not just about fast lookup, but actual > > iteration order. > > I had assumed that that was the whole point of this data

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Jeff King wrote: >>> I don't see any point in generating a sorted list and _then_ making an >>> auxiliary hashmap. My idea was that if you're using a sorted string-list >>> for lookup, then you can replace the whole

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-07 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Sep 07 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > >> I don't see any point in generating a sorted list and _then_ making an >> auxiliary hashmap. My idea was that if you're using a sorted string-list >> for lookup, then you can replace the whole thing with a hash (inserting >> as

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jeff King wrote: > I don't see any point in generating a sorted list and _then_ making an > auxiliary hashmap. My idea was that if you're using a sorted string-list > for lookup, then you can replace the whole thing with a hash (inserting > as you go, rather than sorting at the end). What if I'm

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 04:50:33PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Jeff King wrote: > > > But what I think is harmful is a _sorted_ list, because of the > > "accidentally quadratic" nature, and because it's easy to call its > > functions on an unsorted list. > > I agree --- in general,

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 01:54:15PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > It turns out we make never use of a custom compare function in > > > the stringlist, which helps gaining confidence this use case is nowhere > > > to be found in the code. > > > > Plenty of code uses the default strcmp. You can

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Jeff King wrote: > But what I think is harmful is a _sorted_ list, because of the > "accidentally quadratic" nature, and because it's easy to call its > functions on an unsorted list. I agree --- in general, it tends to be better to build an unsorted string list and then sort it. Once I've

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Stefan Beller
> > Does a hashmap guarantee an order? > > No, it definitely doesn't. > > I guess the reading-between-the-lines assumption that I didn't quite say > is: I think most (if not all) of the users of sorted string lists don't > actually care about a particular order. They just want efficient lookup. >

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 01:04:18PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:12 PM Jeff King wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:59:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > > > > > + string_list_append(_list, *argv[0]); > > > > > > This will create an unsorted list. You'd

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Stefan Beller
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:12 PM Jeff King wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:59:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > > > + string_list_append(_list, *argv[0]); > > > > This will create an unsorted list. You'd have to use > > string_list_insert() here for a sorted list, or > >

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Tim Schumacher
On 06.09.18 20:40, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeff King writes: On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 12:16:58PM +0200, Tim Schumacher wrote: @@ -691,17 +692,23 @@ static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv) /* .. then try the external ones */

Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 03:12:03PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:59:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > > > + string_list_append(_list, *argv[0]); > > > > This will create an unsorted list. You'd have to use > > string_list_insert() here for a sorted list, or > >

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 09:05:50PM +0200, Tim Schumacher wrote: > On 06.09.18 16:57, Jeff King wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 04:01:39PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > > > > If we don't have some test for these sort of aliasing loops that fails > > > now, we really should add that

ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:59:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > + string_list_append(_list, *argv[0]); > > This will create an unsorted list. You'd have to use > string_list_insert() here for a sorted list, or > unsorted_string_list_has_string() in the earlier call. > > It's

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Tim Schumacher
On 06.09.18 16:57, Jeff King wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 04:01:39PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: If we don't have some test for these sort of aliasing loops that fails now, we really should add that in a 1/2 and fix it in this patch in 2/2. Yes, I'd agree that this is worth

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:40:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Also, normal users who have never seen this loop that implements > alias expansion would not have a clue when they see "called twice". > > I actually think the caller should also pass cmd to run_argv() and > then we should use it

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 12:16:58PM +0200, Tim Schumacher wrote: > >> @@ -691,17 +692,23 @@ static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv) >> /* .. then try the external ones */ >> execv_dashed_external(*argv); >> >> -/* It could be

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 05:10:04PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > seen = unsorted_string_list_lookup(_list, *argv[0]); > > if (seen) { > > for (i = 0; i < cmd_list.nr; i++) { > > struct string_list *item = cmd_list.items[i]; > > > > strbuf_addf(, "

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Sep 06 2018, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 04:01:39PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> If we don't have some test for these sort of aliasing loops that fails >> now, we really should add that in a 1/2 and fix it in this patch in 2/2. > > Yes, I'd agree that this

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 12:16:58PM +0200, Tim Schumacher wrote: > @@ -691,17 +692,23 @@ static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv) > /* .. then try the external ones */ > execv_dashed_external(*argv); > > - /* It could be an alias -- this works

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 04:01:39PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > If we don't have some test for these sort of aliasing loops that fails > now, we really should add that in a 1/2 and fix it in this patch in 2/2. Yes, I'd agree that this is worth adding a test (especially if the output

Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Sep 06 2018, Tim Schumacher wrote: > Aliases can only contain non-alias git commands and their > arguments, not other user-defined aliases. Resolving further > (nested) aliases is prevented by breaking the loop after the > first alias was processed. Git then fails with a

[PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

2018-09-06 Thread Tim Schumacher
Aliases can only contain non-alias git commands and their arguments, not other user-defined aliases. Resolving further (nested) aliases is prevented by breaking the loop after the first alias was processed. Git then fails with a command-not-found error. Allow resolving nested aliases by not