Merge branch 'zh/trailer-cmd'

The way the command line specified by the trailer.<token>.command
configuration variable receives the end-user supplied value was
both error prone and misleading.  An alternative to achieve the
same goal in a safer and more intuitive way has been added, as
the trailer.<token>.cmd configuration variable, to replace it.

* zh/trailer-cmd:
  trailer: add new .cmd config option
  docs: correct descript of trailer.<token>.command
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Junio C Hamano
2021-05-11 15:27:23 +09:00
3 changed files with 187 additions and 26 deletions

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@ -232,25 +232,38 @@ trailer.<token>.ifmissing::
that option for trailers with the specified <token>.
trailer.<token>.command::
This option can be used to specify a shell command that will
be called to automatically add or modify a trailer with the
specified <token>.
This option behaves in the same way as 'trailer.<token>.cmd', except
that it doesn't pass anything as argument to the specified command.
Instead the first occurrence of substring $ARG is replaced by the
value that would be passed as argument.
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When this option is specified, the behavior is as if a special
'<token>=<value>' argument were added at the beginning of the command
line, where <value> is taken to be the standard output of the
specified command with any leading and trailing whitespace trimmed
off.
The 'trailer.<token>.command' option has been deprecated in favor of
'trailer.<token>.cmd' due to the fact that $ARG in the user's command is
only replaced once and that the original way of replacing $ARG is not safe.
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If the command contains the `$ARG` string, this string will be
replaced with the <value> part of an existing trailer with the same
<token>, if any, before the command is launched.
When both 'trailer.<token>.cmd' and 'trailer.<token>.command' are given
for the same <token>, 'trailer.<token>.cmd' is used and
'trailer.<token>.command' is ignored.
trailer.<token>.cmd::
This option can be used to specify a shell command that will be called:
once to automatically add a trailer with the specified <token>, and then
each time a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument to modify the <value> of
the trailer that this option would produce.
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If some '<token>=<value>' arguments are also passed on the command
line, when a 'trailer.<token>.command' is configured, the command will
also be executed for each of these arguments. And the <value> part of
these arguments, if any, will be used to replace the `$ARG` string in
the command.
When the specified command is first called to add a trailer
with the specified <token>, the behavior is as if a special
'--trailer <token>=<value>' argument was added at the beginning
of the "git interpret-trailers" command, where <value>
is taken to be the standard output of the command with any
leading and trailing whitespace trimmed off.
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If some '--trailer <token>=<value>' arguments are also passed
on the command line, the command is called again once for each
of these arguments with the same <token>. And the <value> part
of these arguments, if any, will be passed to the command as its
first argument. This way the command can produce a <value> computed
from the <value> passed in the '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument.
EXAMPLES
--------
@ -333,6 +346,55 @@ subject
Fix #42
------------
* Configure a 'help' trailer with a cmd use a script `glog-find-author`
which search specified author identity from git log in git repository
and show how it works:
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------------
$ cat ~/bin/glog-find-author
#!/bin/sh
test -n "$1" && git log --author="$1" --pretty="%an <%ae>" -1 || true
$ git config trailer.help.key "Helped-by: "
$ git config trailer.help.ifExists "addIfDifferentNeighbor"
$ git config trailer.help.cmd "~/bin/glog-find-author"
$ git interpret-trailers --trailer="help:Junio" --trailer="help:Couder" <<EOF
> subject
>
> message
>
> EOF
subject
message
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
------------
* Configure a 'ref' trailer with a cmd use a script `glog-grep`
to grep last relevant commit from git log in the git repository
and show how it works:
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------------
$ cat ~/bin/glog-grep
#!/bin/sh
test -n "$1" && git log --grep "$1" --pretty=reference -1 || true
$ git config trailer.ref.key "Reference-to: "
$ git config trailer.ref.ifExists "replace"
$ git config trailer.ref.cmd "~/bin/glog-grep"
$ git interpret-trailers --trailer="ref:Add copyright notices." <<EOF
> subject
>
> message
>
> EOF
subject
message
Reference-to: 8bc9a0c769 (Add copyright notices., 2005-04-07)
------------
* Configure a 'see' trailer with a command to show the subject of a
commit that is related, and show how it works:
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