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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>,
	Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/27] t1400: Test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:20:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5339EA44.1050006@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbnwm3uqw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 03/31/2014 11:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> This is the (slightly inconsistent) status quo; make sure it doesn't
>> change by accident.
> 
> Interesting.  So "oldvalue" being empty is "we do not care what it
> is" (as opposed to "we know it must not exist yet" aka 0{40}), and
> "newvalue" being empty is the same as "delete it" aka 0{40}.
> 
> That is unfortunate, but I agree it is a good idea to add a test for
> it, so that we will notice when we decide to fix it.

Correct.  This was discussed at some more length here [1].  In v1 of
this patch series I incorrectly changed this behavior, thinking it to
have been an accident.

Michael

[1]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/243731/focus=243773

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24 17:56 [PATCH v2 00/27] Clean up update-refs --stdin and implement ref_transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/27] t1400: Fix name and expected result of one test Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 21:49     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 02/27] t1400: Provide more usual input to the command Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 03/27] parse_arg(): Really test that argument is properly terminated Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:11     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 04/27] t1400: Add some more tests involving quoted arguments Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 05/27] refs.h: Rename the action_on_err constants Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 06/27] update_refs(): Fix constness Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:16     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 22:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 07/27] update-ref --stdin: Read the whole input at once Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 08/27] parse_cmd_verify(): Copy old_sha1 instead of evaluating <oldvalue> twice Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 09/27] update-ref.c: Extract a new function, parse_refname() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 10/27] update-ref --stdin: Improve error messages for invalid values Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 11/27] update-ref --stdin: Make error messages more consistent Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 12/27] update-ref --stdin: Simplify error messages for missing oldvalues Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 13/27] t1400: Test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:20     ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 14/27] update-ref.c: Extract a new function, parse_next_sha1() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39   ` Brad King
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 15/27] update-ref --stdin -z: Deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 16/27] t1400: Test one mistake at a time Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39   ` Brad King
2014-03-31 21:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:32     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 17/27] update-ref --stdin: Improve the error message for unexpected EOF Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 18/27] update-ref --stdin: Harmonize error messages Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:37     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01  9:29       ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-02 16:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 19/27] refs: Add a concept of a reference transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39   ` Brad King
2014-03-26 21:42     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02  4:57     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 20/27] update-ref --stdin: Reimplement using reference transactions Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02  5:03     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-03 15:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-04  5:02         ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 21/27] refs: Remove API function update_refs() Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 22/27] struct ref_update: Rename field "ref_name" to "refname" Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02  5:11     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 23/27] struct ref_update: Store refname as a FLEX_ARRAY Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 24/27] ref_transaction_commit(): Introduce temporary variables Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 25/27] struct ref_update: Add a lock member Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 26/27] struct ref_update: Add type field Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 20:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02 10:13     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-02 17:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 27/27] ref_transaction_commit(): Work with transaction->updates in place Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 00/27] Clean up update-refs --stdin and implement ref_transaction Brad King
2014-03-26 21:47   ` Michael Haggerty

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