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From: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add a setting to require a filter to be successful
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:43:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3EF43D.2040102@orb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd39dqa1i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2012-02-17 16:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> A few test in t0021 use 'false' as the filter, which can exit without
> reading any byte from us, before we start writing and causes us to die
> with SIGPIPE, leading to intermittent test failure.  I think treating this
> as a failure of running the filter (the end user's filter should read what
> is fed in full, produce its output and write the result back to us) is the
> right thing to do, and this patch needs more work to handle such a
> situation better, probably by using sigchain_push(SIGPIPE) or something.

If I understand what you're saying, current version of git already have 
the problem: if a filter fails without reading anything, git will die 
instead of using the unfiltered content. My patch has only made the 
issue apparent by testing with a failing filter.
Am I understanding correctly?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-18  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-16 23:18 [PATCH] Add an option to require a filter to be successful Jehan Bing
2012-02-17  0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-17  1:19   ` [PATCH v2] Add a setting " jehan
2012-02-17  7:08     ` Johannes Sixt
2012-02-17 15:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-18  0:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-18  0:43         ` Jehan Bing [this message]
2012-02-18  7:27           ` Junio C Hamano

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