Just like in the Perl script `git-add--interactive.perl`, for each
command a unique prefix is determined (if there exists any within the
given parameters), and shown in the list, and accepted as a shortcut for
the command.
To determine the unique prefixes, as well as to look up the command in
question, we use a copy of the list and sort it.
While this might seem like overkill for a single command, it will make
much more sense when all the commands are implemented, and when we reuse
the same logic to present a list of files to edit, with convenient
unique prefixes.
At the start of the development of this patch series, a dedicated data
structure was introduced that imitated the Trie that the Perl version
implements. However, this was deemed overkill, and we now simply sort
the list before determining the length of the unique prefixes by looking
at each item's neighbor. As a bonus, we now use the same sorted list to
perform a binary search using the user-provided prefix as search key.
Original-patch-by: Slavica Đukić <slawica92@hotmail.com>
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reason why we did not start with the main loop to begin with is that
it is the first user of `list_and_choose()`, which uses the `list()`
function that we conveniently introduced for use by the `status`
command.
In contrast to the Perl version, in the built-in interactive `add`, we
will keep the `list()` function (which only displays items) and the
`list_and_choose()` function (which uses `list()` to display the items,
and only takes care of the "and choose" part) separate.
The `list_and_choose()` function, as implemented in
`git-add--interactive.perl` knows a few more tricks than the function we
introduce in this patch:
- There is a flag to let the user select multiple items.
- In multi-select mode, the list of items is prefixed with a marker
indicating what items have been selected.
- Initially, for each item a unique prefix is determined (if there
exists any within the given parameters), and shown in the list, and
accepted as a shortcut for the selection.
These features will be implemented in the C version later.
This patch does not add any new main loop command, of course, the
built-in `git add -i` still only supports the `status` command. The
remaining commands to follow over the course of the next commits.
To accommodate for listing the commands in columns, preparing for the
commands that will be implemented over the course of the next
patches/patch series, we teach the `list()` function to do precisely
that.
Note that we only have a prompt ending in a single ">" at this stage;
later commits will add commands that display a double ">>" to indicate
that the user is in a different loop than the main one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For simplicity, we only implemented the `status` command without colors.
This patch starts adding color, matching what the Perl script
`git-add--interactive.perl` does.
Original-Patch-By: Daniel Ferreira <bnmvco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Slavica Đukić <slawica92@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This implements the `status` command of `git add -i`. The data
structures introduced in this commit will be extended later, as needed.
At this point, we re-implement only part of the `list_and_choose()`
function of the Perl script `git-add--interactive.perl` and call it
`list()`. It does not yet color anything, or do columns, or allow user
input.
Over the course of the next commits, we will introduce a
`list_and_choose()` function that uses `list()` to display the list of
options and let the user choose one or more of the displayed items. This
will be used to implement the main loop of the built-in `git add -i`, at
which point the new `status` command can actually be used.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ferreira <bnmvco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Slavica Đukić <slawica92@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike previous conversions to C, where we started with a built-in
helper, we start this conversion by adding an interception in the
`run_add_interactive()` function when the new opt-in
`add.interactive.useBuiltin` config knob is turned on (or the
corresponding environment variable `GIT_TEST_ADD_I_USE_BUILTIN`), and
calling the new internal API function `run_add_i()` that is implemented
directly in libgit.a.
At this point, the built-in version of `git add -i` only states that it
cannot do anything yet. In subsequent patches/patch series, the
`run_add_i()` function will gain more and more functionality, until it
is feature complete. The whole arc of the conversion can be found in the
PRs #170-175 at https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git.
The "--helper approach" can unfortunately not be used here: on Windows
we face the very specific problem that a `system()` call in
Perl seems to close `stdin` in the parent process when the spawned
process consumes even one character from `stdin`. Which prevents us from
implementing the main loop in C and still trying to hand off to the Perl
script.
The very real downside of the approach we have to take here is that the
test suite won't pass with `GIT_TEST_ADD_I_USE_BUILTIN=true` until the
conversion is complete (the `--helper` approach would have let it pass,
even at each of the incremental conversion steps).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin
Slavica Đukić
Daniel Ferreira