Re: [PATCH] column: show auto columns when pager is active

[Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 08:12:35PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
> On 11 October 2017 at 19:23, Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> wrote:
> > finalize_colopts in column.c only checks whether the output is a TTY to
> > determine if columns should be enabled with columns set to auto. Also check
> > if the pager is active.
> 
> Maybe you could say something about the difficulties of writing a test
> for `git column` proper. Something like this perhaps:
> 
>   Adding a test for git column is possible but requires some care to
>   work around a race on stdin. See commit 18d8c2693 (test_terminal:
>   redirect child process' stdin to a pty, 2015-08-04). Test git tag
>   instead, since that does not involve stdin, and since that was the
>   original motivation for this patch.

Right, makes sense.
> 
> > Helped-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
> > ---
> >  column.c         |  3 ++-
> >  t/t7006-pager.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Does the documentation on `column.ui` need to be updated? It talks about
> "if the output is to the terminal". That's similar to the documentation
> on the various `color.*`, so we should be fine, and arguably it's even
> better not to say anything since that makes it consistent.
> 
> > diff --git a/t/t7006-pager.sh b/t/t7006-pager.sh
> > index f0f1abd1c..44c2ca5d3 100755
> > --- a/t/t7006-pager.sh
> > +++ b/t/t7006-pager.sh
> > @@ -570,4 +570,18 @@ test_expect_success 'command with underscores does not complain' '
> >         test_cmp expect actual
> >  '
> >
> > +test_expect_success TTY 'git tag with auto-columns ' '
> > +       test_commit one &&
> > +       test_commit two &&
> > +       test_commit three &&
> > +       test_commit four &&
> > +       test_commit five &&
> > +       cat >expected <<\EOF &&
> > +initial  one      two      three    four     five
> > +EOF
> > +       test_terminal env PAGER="cat >actual.tag" COLUMNS=80 \
> > +               git -p -c column.ui=auto tag --sort=authordate &&
> > +       test_cmp expected actual.tag
> > +'
> > +
> >  test_done
> 
> Since `git tag` pages when it's listing, you don't need the `-p`. But
> it's not like it hurts to have it. Yeah, I know, you needed it with `git
> column`. :-)

Right, it was a bit of a left-over since I assumed the PAGER='cat >paginated.out'
from the beginning of the test was in place and I wasn't getting any
output, but it turned out PAGER wasn't set.

> I wonder if it's useful to set COLUMNS a bit lower so that this has to
> split across more than one line (but not six), i.e., to do something
> non-trivial. I suppose that might lower the chances of some weird
> breakage slipping through.

Yeah, I was doubting about that, but wouldn't this amount to testing
whether git column is working properly, instead of just testing whether
it's being done at all?

> This test uses "actual.tag" while most (all?) others in this file use
> "actual". Maybe you worry about checking the "wrong" file, e.g., in case
> the pager doesn't kick in. You could do `rm -f actual` before the
> `test_terminal`-invocation to protect against that.

Yeah, I actually ran into that, but rm-ing it is better, I agree.

> These were just the thoughts that occurred to me, not sure if any of
> them is particularly significant. Thanks for cleaning up after me.
> 

np. Just as I posted earlier, I think you did not actually cause the bug
(because this has never worked), it just made it visible to more users.

Kevin