From 7ec8125fba96f47b00bb0cab3ed716557e81e7e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elijah Newren Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:05:37 +0000 Subject: check-ignore: fix documentation and implementation to match check-ignore has two different modes, and neither of these modes has an implementation that matches the documentation. These modes differ in whether they just print paths or whether they also print the final pattern matched by the path. The fix is different for both modes, so I'll discuss both separately. === First (default) mode === The first mode is documented as: For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via --stdin, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is excluded. However, it fails to do this because it did not account for negated patterns. Commands other than check-ignore verify exclusion rules via calling ... -> treat_one_path() -> is_excluded() -> last_matching_pattern() while check-ignore has a call path of the form: ... -> check_ignore() -> last_matching_pattern() The fact that the latter does not include the call to is_excluded() means that it is susceptible to to messing up negated patterns (since that is the only significant thing is_excluded() adds over last_matching_pattern()). Unfortunately, we can't make it just call is_excluded(), because the same codepath is used by the verbose mode which needs to know the matched pattern in question. This brings us to... === Second (verbose) mode === The second mode, known as verbose mode, references the first in the documentation and says: Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and between exclude sources, see gitignore(5). The "Also" means it will print patterns that match the exclude rules as noted for the first mode, and also print which pattern matches. Unless more information is printed than just pathname and pattern (which is not done), this definition is somewhat ill-defined and perhaps even self-contradictory for negated patterns: A path which matches a negated exclude pattern is NOT excluded and thus shouldn't be printed by the former logic, while it certainly does match one of the explicit patterns and thus should be printed by the latter logic. === Resolution == Since the second mode exists to find out which pattern matches given paths, and showing the user a pattern that begins with a '!' is sufficient for them to figure out whether the pattern is excluded, the existing behavior is desirable -- we just need to update the documentation to match the implementation (i.e. it is about printing which pattern is matched by paths, not about showing which paths are excluded). For the first or default mode, users just want to know whether a pattern is excluded. As such, the existing documentation is desirable; change the implementation to match the documented behavior. Finally, also adjust a few tests in t0008 that were caught up by this discrepancy in how negated paths were handled. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 8b42cb3..b5f6a2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -30,9 +30,15 @@ OPTIONS valid with a single pathname. -v, --verbose:: - Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) - for each given pathname. For precedence rules within and - between exclude sources, see linkgit:gitignore[5]. + Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path + that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern + together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually + means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!' + then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is + NOT excluded.) ++ +For precedence rules within and between exclude sources, see +linkgit:gitignore[5]. --stdin:: Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, diff --git a/builtin/check-ignore.c b/builtin/check-ignore.c index 5a4f923..ea5d0ae 100644 --- a/builtin/check-ignore.c +++ b/builtin/check-ignore.c @@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static int check_ignore(struct dir_struct *dir, int dtype = DT_UNKNOWN; pattern = last_matching_pattern(dir, &the_index, full_path, &dtype); + if (!verbose && pattern && + pattern->flags & PATTERN_FLAG_NEGATIVE) + pattern = NULL; } if (!quiet && (pattern || show_non_matching)) output_pattern(pathspec.items[i].original, pattern); diff --git a/t/t0008-ignores.sh b/t/t0008-ignores.sh index 1744cee..370a389 100755 --- a/t/t0008-ignores.sh +++ b/t/t0008-ignores.sh @@ -424,9 +424,24 @@ test_expect_success 'local ignore inside a sub-directory with --verbose' ' ) ' -test_expect_success_multi 'nested include' \ - 'a/b/.gitignore:8:!on* a/b/one' ' - test_check_ignore "a/b/one" +test_expect_success 'nested include of negated pattern' ' + expect "" && + test_check_ignore "a/b/one" 1 +' + +test_expect_success 'nested include of negated pattern with -q' ' + expect "" && + test_check_ignore "-q a/b/one" 1 +' + +test_expect_success 'nested include of negated pattern with -v' ' + expect "a/b/.gitignore:8:!on* a/b/one" && + test_check_ignore "-v a/b/one" 0 +' + +test_expect_success 'nested include of negated pattern with -v -n' ' + expect "a/b/.gitignore:8:!on* a/b/one" && + test_check_ignore "-v -n a/b/one" 0 ' ############################################################################ @@ -460,7 +475,6 @@ test_expect_success 'cd to ignored sub-directory' ' expect_from_stdin <<-\EOF && foo twoooo - ../one seven ../../one EOF @@ -543,7 +557,6 @@ test_expect_success 'global ignore' ' globalthree a/globalthree a/per-repo - globaltwo EOF test_check_ignore "globalone per-repo globalthree a/globalthree a/per-repo not-ignored globaltwo" ' @@ -586,17 +599,7 @@ EOF cat <<-\EOF >expected-default one a/one - a/b/on - a/b/one - a/b/one one - a/b/one two - "a/b/one\"three" - a/b/two a/b/twooo - globaltwo - a/globaltwo - a/b/globaltwo - b/globaltwo EOF cat <<-EOF >expected-verbose .gitignore:1:one one @@ -696,8 +699,12 @@ cat <<-EOF >expected-all $global_excludes:2:!globaltwo ../b/globaltwo :: c/not-ignored EOF +cat <<-EOF >expected-default +../one +one +b/twooo +EOF grep -v '^:: ' expected-all >expected-verbose -sed -e 's/.* //' expected-verbose >expected-default broken_c_unquote stdin >stdin0 -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6