From: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>,
"Jean-Noël Avila" <jn.avila@free.fr>,
"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
"Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>,
"Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 09/13] config: format expiry dates quietly
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:26:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7568a0bc349e7cc454a50cc43a1549031ca0ab9b.1771849615.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2044.v3.git.1771849615.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Move the logic for formatting expiry date config values into a helper
method and use quiet parsing when needed.
Note that git_config_expiry_date() will show an error on a bad parse and
not die() like most other git_config...() parsers. Thus, we use
'quietly' here instead of 'gently'.
There is an unfortunate asymmetry in these two parsing methods, but we
need to treat a positive response from parse_expiry_date() as an error
or we will get incorrect values.
This updates the behavior of 'git config list --type=expiry-date' to be
quiet when attempting parsing on non-date values.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
---
builtin/config.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
t/t1300-config.sh | 11 +----------
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index 2828b6dcf1..ee77ddc87c 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include "abspath.h"
#include "config.h"
#include "color.h"
+#include "date.h"
#include "editor.h"
#include "environment.h"
#include "gettext.h"
@@ -333,6 +334,23 @@ static int format_config_path(struct strbuf *buf,
return 0;
}
+static int format_config_expiry_date(struct strbuf *buf,
+ const char *key_,
+ const char *value_,
+ int quietly)
+{
+ timestamp_t t;
+ if (quietly) {
+ if (parse_expiry_date(value_, &t))
+ return -1;
+ } else if (git_config_expiry_date(&t, key_, value_) < 0) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ strbuf_addf(buf, "%"PRItime, t);
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Format the configuration key-value pair (`key_`, `value_`) and
* append it into strbuf `buf`. Returns a negative value on failure,
@@ -368,12 +386,9 @@ static int format_config(const struct config_display_options *opts,
res = format_config_bool_or_str(buf, value_);
else if (opts->type == TYPE_PATH)
res = format_config_path(buf, key_, value_, gently);
- else if (opts->type == TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE) {
- timestamp_t t;
- if (git_config_expiry_date(&t, key_, value_) < 0)
- return -1;
- strbuf_addf(buf, "%"PRItime, t);
- } else if (opts->type == TYPE_COLOR) {
+ else if (opts->type == TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE)
+ res = format_config_expiry_date(buf, key_, value_, gently);
+ else if (opts->type == TYPE_COLOR) {
char v[COLOR_MAXLEN];
if (git_config_color(v, key_, value_) < 0)
return -1;
diff --git a/t/t1300-config.sh b/t/t1300-config.sh
index 48d9c554d8..72bdd6ab03 100755
--- a/t/t1300-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-config.sh
@@ -2562,15 +2562,6 @@ test_expect_success 'list --type=path shows only canonicalizable path values' '
'
test_expect_success 'list --type=expiry-date shows only canonicalizable dates' '
- cat >expecterr <<-EOF &&
- error: '\''True'\'' for '\''section.foo'\'' is not a valid timestamp
- error: '\''~/dir'\'' for '\''section.path'\'' is not a valid timestamp
- error: '\''red'\'' for '\''section.red'\'' is not a valid timestamp
- error: '\''Blue'\'' for '\''section.blue'\'' is not a valid timestamp
- error: '\'':(optional)no-such-path'\'' for '\''section.missing'\'' is not a valid timestamp
- error: '\'':(optional)expect'\'' for '\''section.exists'\'' is not a valid timestamp
- EOF
-
git config ${mode_prefix}list --type=expiry-date >actual 2>err &&
# section.number and section.big parse as relative dates that could
@@ -2578,7 +2569,7 @@ test_expect_success 'list --type=expiry-date shows only canonicalizable dates' '
test_grep section.big actual &&
test_grep section.number actual &&
test_grep "section.date=$(git config --type=expiry-date section.$key)" actual &&
- test_cmp expecterr err
+ test_must_be_empty err
'
test_expect_success 'list --type=color shows only canonicalizable color values' '
--
gitgitgadget
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-23 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-10 4:42 [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] Make 'git config list --type=' parse and filter types Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-10 4:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] config: move show_all_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-10 4:42 ` [PATCH 2/5] parse: add git_parse_maybe_pathname() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-11 12:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-10 4:42 ` [PATCH 3/5] config: allow format_config() to filter Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-10 5:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 18:12 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-02-10 4:42 ` [PATCH 4/5] config: create special init for list mode Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-10 4:42 ` [PATCH 5/5] config: make 'git config list --type=<X>' work Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-11 12:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-11 17:49 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-02-12 6:39 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-10 4:59 ` [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] Make 'git config list --type=' parse and filter types Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 18:18 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-02-11 12:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] config: move show_all_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] config: add 'gently' parameter to format_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-17 9:04 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] config: make 'git config list --type=<X>' work Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-17 9:04 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-17 16:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-17 16:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] config: format int64s gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-14 0:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-17 9:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-23 3:41 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] config: format bools gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] config: format bools or ints gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-17 9:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-23 3:25 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] config: format bools or strings in helper Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] parse: add git_parse_maybe_pathname() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] config: format paths gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-17 9:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] config: format expiry dates gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] color: add color_parse_gently() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-17 9:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-17 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-23 2:12 ` Derrick Stolee
2026-02-23 5:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] config: format colors gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-13 23:55 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] config: restructure format_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-17 9:05 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] Make 'git config list --type=' parse and filter types Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] config: move show_all_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] config: add 'gently' parameter to format_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] config: make 'git config list --type=<X>' work Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] config: format int64s gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] config: format bools gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] config: format bools or ints gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] config: format bools or strings in helper Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] config: format paths gently Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] color: add color_parse_quietly() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] config: format colors quietly Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] config: restructure format_config() Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 12:26 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] config: use an enum for type Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
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