Re: git-prompt.sh incompatible with non-basic global grep.patternType

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Richard,

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Richard Soderberg wrote:

> Hi, I wanted to report something interesting that I found while tracing
> a severe slowdown in git-prompt.sh.
> 
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/6d158cba282f22fa1548af1188f78042fed30aed#diff-f37c4f4a898819f0ca4b5ff69e81d4d9R141
> 
> Way back in this commit, someone added a useful chunk of code that works
> perfectly with svn+ssh:// URLs under basic regexes:
> 
> + local svn_upstream=($(git log --first-parent -1 \ +
> --grep="^git-svn-id: \(${svn_url_pattern:2}\)" 2>/dev/null))
> 
> However, if I switch over to Perl regexes (or Extended):
> 
> git config --global grep.patternType perl
> 
> Then the command runs for one wall clock second and shows incorrect
> results on my repository. I eventually traced this to an issue with the
> regular expression provided, assuming the svn repository url is
> "svn+ssh://...":
> 
> git log ... --grep="^git-svn-id: \(svn+ssh://...\)" 2>/dev/null
> 
> The + sign isn't escaped in git-prompt.sh, which under non-basic regexes
> causes the match to fail entirely.
> 
>  - R.
> 
> ps. git log --basic-regexp does not fix the issue, as for unknown
> reasons (I'll start another thread) the command-line option doesn't
> override grep.patternType.

Maybe this helps?

-- snipsnap --
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
index 97eacd7..74be907 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ __git_ps1_show_upstream ()
 		# get the upstream from the "git-svn-id: ..." in a commit
 		# message
 		# (git-svn uses essentially the same procedure internally)
 		local -a svn_upstream
-		svn_upstream=($(git log --first-parent -1 \
+		svn_upstream=($(git -c grep.patternType=default log --first-parent -1 \
 					--grep="^git-svn-id: \(${svn_url_pattern#??}\)" 2>/dev/null))
 		if [[ 0 -ne ${#svn_upstream[@]} ]]; then
 			svn_upstream=${svn_upstream[${#svn_upstream[@]} - 2]}