aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-10-23 16:52:44 -0400
committerJeff King <peff@peff.net>2012-10-24 03:36:55 -0400
commit00b347d3aa094948d58dd1303aef7ba97ff09519 (patch)
tree87f7cc606b042e69fb750773d4dc898a80d20fd5
parent7acdd6f0bc27bba37591e2d5fc2ca84e2af13ce4 (diff)
downloadgit-00b347d3aa094948d58dd1303aef7ba97ff09519.tar.gz
git-00b347d3aa094948d58dd1303aef7ba97ff09519.tar.xz
git-config: do not complain about duplicate entries
If git-config is asked for a single value, it will complain and exit with an error if it finds multiple instances of that value. This is unlike the usual internal config parsing, however, which will generally overwrite previous values, leaving only the final one. For example: [set a multivar] $ git config user.email one@example.com $ git config --add user.email two@example.com [use the internal parser to fetch it] $ git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT Your Name <two@example.com> ... [use git-config to fetch it] $ git config user.email one@example.com error: More than one value for the key user.email: two@example.com This overwriting behavior is critical for the regular parser, which starts with the lowest-priority file (e.g., /etc/gitconfig) and proceeds to the highest-priority file ($GIT_DIR/config). Overwriting yields the highest priority value at the end. Git-config solves this problem by implementing its own parsing. It goes from highest to lowest priorty, but does not proceed to the next file if it has seen a value. So in practice, this distinction never mattered much, because it only triggered for values in the same file. And there was not much point in doing that; the real value is in overwriting values from lower-priority files. However, this changed with the implementation of config include files. Now we might see an include overriding a value from the parent file, which is a sensible thing to do, but git-config will flag as a duplication. This patch drops the duplicate detection for git-config and switches to a pure-overwrite model (for the single case; --get-all can still be used if callers want to do something more fancy). As is shown by the modifications to the test suite, this is a user-visible change in behavior. An alternative would be to just change the include case, but this is much cleaner for a few reasons: 1. If you change the include case, then to what? If you just stop parsing includes after getting a value, then you will get a _different_ answer than the regular config parser (you'll get the first value instead of the last value). So you'd want to implement overwrite semantics anyway. 2. Even though it is a change in behavior for git-config, it is bringing us in line with what the internal parsers already do. 3. The file-order reimplementation is the only thing keeping us from sharing more code with the internal config parser, which will help keep differences to a minimum. Going under the assumption that the primary purpose of git-config is to behave identically to how git's internal parsing works, this change can be seen as a bug-fix. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
-rw-r--r--builtin/config.c27
-rwxr-xr-xt/t1300-repo-config.sh6
-rwxr-xr-xt/t9700/test.pl3
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index 08e83fc5e..77efa697d 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ static int collect_config(const char *key_, const char *value_, void *cb)
char value[256];
const char *vptr = value;
int must_free_vptr = 0;
- int dup_error = 0;
int must_print_delim = 0;
if (!use_key_regexp && strcmp(key_, key))
@@ -126,8 +125,6 @@ static int collect_config(const char *key_, const char *value_, void *cb)
strbuf_addstr(buf, key_);
must_print_delim = 1;
}
- if (values->nr > 1 && !do_all)
- dup_error = 1;
if (types == TYPE_INT)
sprintf(value, "%d", git_config_int(key_, value_?value_:""));
else if (types == TYPE_BOOL)
@@ -149,16 +146,12 @@ static int collect_config(const char *key_, const char *value_, void *cb)
vptr = "";
must_print_delim = 0;
}
- if (dup_error) {
- error("More than one value for the key %s: %s",
- key_, vptr);
- }
- else {
- if (must_print_delim)
- strbuf_addch(buf, key_delim);
- strbuf_addstr(buf, vptr);
- strbuf_addch(buf, term);
- }
+
+ if (must_print_delim)
+ strbuf_addch(buf, key_delim);
+ strbuf_addstr(buf, vptr);
+ strbuf_addch(buf, term);
+
if (must_free_vptr)
/* If vptr must be freed, it's a pointer to a
* dynamically allocated buffer, it's safe to cast to
@@ -263,14 +256,12 @@ static int get_value(const char *key_, const char *regex_)
if (!do_all && !values.nr && system_wide)
git_config_from_file(fn, system_wide, data);
- if (do_all)
- ret = !values.nr;
- else
- ret = (values.nr == 1) ? 0 : values.nr > 1 ? 2 : 1;
+ ret = !values.nr;
for (i = 0; i < values.nr; i++) {
struct strbuf *buf = values.items + i;
- fwrite(buf->buf, 1, buf->len, stdout);
+ if (do_all || i == values.nr - 1)
+ fwrite(buf->buf, 1, buf->len, stdout);
strbuf_release(buf);
}
free(values.items);
diff --git a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
index 51dd5b58b..97a25f148 100755
--- a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
@@ -254,8 +254,10 @@ test_expect_success 'non-match value' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
-test_expect_success 'ambiguous get' '
- test_must_fail git config --get nextsection.nonewline
+test_expect_success 'multi-valued get returns final one' '
+ echo "wow2 for me" >expect &&
+ git config --get nextsection.nonewline >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
'
test_expect_success 'multi-valued get-all returns all' '
diff --git a/t/t9700/test.pl b/t/t9700/test.pl
index 3b9b48408..0d4e36623 100755
--- a/t/t9700/test.pl
+++ b/t/t9700/test.pl
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ is($r->get_color("color.test.slot1", "red"), $ansi_green, "get_color");
# Save and restore STDERR; we will probably extract this into a
# "dies_ok" method and possibly move the STDERR handling to Git.pm.
open our $tmpstderr, ">&STDERR" or die "cannot save STDERR"; close STDERR;
-eval { $r->config("test.dupstring") };
-ok($@, "config: duplicate entry in scalar context fails");
+is($r->config("test.dupstring"), "value2", "config: multivar");
eval { $r->config_bool("test.boolother") };
ok($@, "config_bool: non-boolean values fail");
open STDERR, ">&", $tmpstderr or die "cannot restore STDERR";