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2020-02-24t: drop debug `cat` callsMartin Ågren
We `cat` files, but don't inspect or grab the contents in any way. Unlike in an earlier commit, there is no reason to suspect that these files could be missing, so `cat`-ing them is just wasted effort. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-04sideband: color lines with keyword onlyStefan Beller
When bf1a11f0a1 (sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output, 2018-08-07) was introduced, it was carefully considered which strings would be highlighted. However 59a255aef0 (sideband: do not read beyond the end of input, 2018-08-18) brought in a regression that the original did not test for. A line containing only the keyword and nothing else ("SUCCESS") should still be colored. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-18sideband: do not read beyond the end of inputJunio C Hamano
The caller of maybe_colorize_sideband() gives a counted buffer <src, n>, but the callee checked src[] as if it were a NUL terminated buffer. If src[] had all isspace() bytes in it, we would have made n negative, and then (1) made number of strncasecmp() calls to see if the remaining bytes in src[] matched keywords, reading beyond the end of the array (this actually happens even if n does not go negative), and/or (2) called strbuf_add() with negative count, most likely triggering the "you want to use way too much memory" error due to unsigned integer overflow. Fix both issues by making sure we do not go beyond &src[n]. In the longer term we may want to accept size_t as parameter for clarity (even though we know that a sideband message we are painting typically would fit on a line on a terminal and int is sufficient). Write it down as a NEEDSWORK comment. Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-08sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband outputHan-Wen Nienhuys
The colorization is controlled with the config setting "color.remote". Supported keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success". They are highlighted if they appear at the start of the line, which is common in error messages, eg. ERROR: commit is missing Change-Id The Git push process itself prints lots of non-actionable messages (eg. bandwidth statistics, object counters for different phases of the process). This obscures actionable error messages that servers may send back. Highlighting keywords in the sideband draws more attention to those messages. The background for this change is that Gerrit does server-side processing to create or update code reviews, and actionable error messages (eg. missing Change-Id) must be communicated back to the user during the push. User research has shown that new users have trouble seeing these messages. The highlighting is done on the client rather than server side, so servers don't have to grow capabilities to understand terminal escape codes and terminal state. It also consistent with the current state where Git is control of the local display (eg. prefixing messages with "remote: "). The highlighting can be configured using color.remote.<KEYWORD> configuration settings. Since the keys are matched case insensitively, we match the keywords case insensitively too. Finally, this solution is backwards compatible: many servers already prefix their messages with "error", and they will benefit from this change without requiring a server update. By contrast, a server-side solution would likely require plumbing the TERM variable through the git protocol, so it would require changes to both server and client. Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>