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After the previous changes in this series there are only a handful of
$(__gitdir) command substitutions left in the completion script, but
there is still a bit of room for improvements:
1. The command substitution involves the forking of a subshell,
which has considerable overhead on some platforms.
2. There are a few cases, where this command substitution is
executed more than once during a single completion, which means
multiple subshells and possibly multiple 'git rev-parse'
executions. __gitdir() is invoked twice while completing refs
for e.g. 'git log', 'git rebase', 'gitk', or while completing
remote refs for 'git fetch' or 'git push'.
Both of these points can be addressed by using the
__git_find_repo_path() helper function introduced in the previous
commit:
1. __git_find_repo_path() stores the path to the repository in a
variable instead of printing it, so the command substitution
around the function can be avoided. Or rather: the command
substitution should be avoided to make the new value of the
variable set inside the function visible to the callers.
(Yes, there is now a command substitution inside
__git_find_repo_path() around each 'git rev-parse', but that's
executed only if necessary, and only once per completion, see
point 2. below.)
2. $__git_repo_path, the variable holding the path to the
repository, is declared local in the toplevel completion
functions __git_main() and __gitk_main(). Thus, once set, the
path is visible in all completion functions, including all
subsequent calls to __git_find_repo_path(), meaning that they
wouldn't have to re-discover the path to the repository.
So call __git_find_repo_path() and use $__git_repo_path instead of the
$(__gitdir) command substitution to access paths in the .git
directory. Turn tests checking __gitdir()'s repository discovery into
tests of __git_find_repo_path() such that only the tested function
changes but the expected results don't, ensuring that repo discovery
keeps working as it did before.
As __gitdir() is not used anymore in the completion script, mark it as
deprecated and direct users' attention to __git_find_repo_path() and
$__git_repo_path. Yet keep four __gitdir() tests to ensure that it
handles success and failure of __git_find_repo_path() and that it
still handles its optional remote argument, because users' custom
completion scriptlets might depend on it.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there are some general interests (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc