Re: [TopGit PATCH] prev/next/tsort: commands to explore dependencies

["Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@strlen.de>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:32:50PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 17:36, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:55:00AM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> >> I hacked 3 commands to explore the dependencies of TopGit patches:
> >
> >  thanks, the idea of all three commands is good,
> >
> >>   I) tg prev [NAME]
> >>      outputs the dependencies of NAME
> >>
> >>  II) tg next [NAME]
> >>      outputs patches that depends on NAME
> >
> >  but I think it would be cleaner to add this functionality to
> > tg info...
> Right, but 'tg next' is shorter than any 'tg info --next'.
> 
> >
> >> III) tg tsort [PATTERN]
> >>      outputs a topological order of all patches starting with PATTERN
> >
> > ...and tg summary (overally, to have a tree view of branches).
> Maybe something like the graph output from git rev-log --graph?
> 
> >> +                                     printf "%s\t%q\n" "${dep_rev}" "${dep}" >&3
> >> +                                     printf "%s\t%s\n" "${topic_rev}" "${dep_rev}"
> >
> > %q?
> 
> "and %q causes printf to output the corresponding argument in  a
> format that can be reused as shell input."
With /bin/sh == dash this doesn't work.  I havn't looked where and how
this is used, but rev-parse has an --sq option that results in the
output being shell quoted.  Maybe this can help?

Best regards
Uwe