Re: [PATCH RESEND] hooks: add sendemail-validate-series

["Robin Jarry" <robin@jarry.cc>]

Hi Phillip,

Phillip Wood, Apr 03, 2023 at 16:09:
> > +  <patch-file> LF
>
> Usually git commands that produce or consume paths either use quoted 
> paths terminated by LF or unquoted paths terminated by NUL. That way 
> there is no ambiguity when a path contains LF.

I had never imagined that some twisted mind would insert LF in path
names but since nothing will forbid it, I agree that it is
a possibility.

I'm not sure what you mean by quoted paths, you mean adding literal
double quotes before printing them to the hook stdin? That means the
hook needs to handle de-quoting after reading, right?

> > diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> > index 07f2a0cbeaad..bec4d0f4ab47 100755
> > --- a/git-send-email.perl
> > +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> > @@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ sub is_format_patch_arg {
> >   			validate_patch($f, $target_xfer_encoding);
> >   		}
> >   	}
> > +	validate_patch_series(@files)
>
> This happens fairly early, before the user has had a chance to edit the 
> patches and before we have added all the recipient and in-reply-to 
> headers to the patch files. Would it be more useful to validate what 
> will actually be sent?

I agree that it would be better. I added the check here to be in line
with the existing sendemail-validate hook. I could move it after edition
and header finalization but then we would need to move
sendemail-validate as well for consistency. What do you think?

> > +	# The hook needs a correct cwd and GIT_DIR.
> > +	require Cwd;
> > +	my $cwd_save = Cwd::getcwd();
> > +	chdir($repo->wc_path() or $repo->repo_path()) or die("chdir: $!");
> > +	local $ENV{"GIT_DIR"} = $repo->repo_path();
>
> This looks like it is copied from the existing code but why do we need 
> to do this? I'm struggling to come up with a scenario where "git 
> send-email" can find the repository but the hook cannot.

Again, for consistency I assumed it would be best to keep the code
similar in both hooks. If you think it is safe to skip that check, I'll
remove it gladly.

> > +	# cannot use git hook run, it closes stdin before forking the hook
> > +	open(my $stdin, "|-", $validate_hook) or die("fork: $!");
>
> This passes $validate_hook to the shell to execute which is not what we 
> want as it will split the hook path on whitespace etc. I think it would 
> be better to use "git hook run --to-stdin" (see 0414b3891c (hook: 
> support a --to-stdin=<path> option, 2023-02-08))

Ah that's a nice addition. I'll add that in v2.

Thanks for reviewing!