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[RFC,1/1] push: introduce '--heads' option

Message ID 20221205133525.60464-2-tenglong.tl@alibaba-inc.com (mailing list archive)
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Series push: introduce '--heads' option | expand

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Teng Long Dec. 5, 2022, 1:35 p.m. UTC
From: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>

The '--all' option of git-push built-in cmd support to push all branches
(refs under refs/heads) to remote. Under the usage, a user can easlily
work in some scenarios, for example, branches synchronization and batch
upload.

'--all' was introduced for a long time, meanwhile, git supports to
customize the storage location under "refs/". when a new git user see
the usage like, 'git push origin --all', we might feel like we're
pushing _all_ the refs instead of just branches without looking at the
documents until we found the related description of it or '--mirror'.

To ensure compatibility, we cannot rename '--all' to another name
directly, one way is, we can try to add a new option '--heads' which be
identical with the functionality of '--all' to let the user understand
the meaning of representation more clearly. Actually, We've more or less
named options this way already, for example, in 'git-show-ref' and 'git
ls-remote'.

At the same time, we fix a related issue about the wrong help
information of '--all' option in code.

Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-push.txt |  1 +
 builtin/push.c             | 13 +++++++------
 t/t5523-push-upstream.sh   | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Comments

ZheNing Hu Dec. 5, 2022, 2:23 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi,

Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com> 于2022年12月5日周一 21:44写道:
>
> From: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
>
> The '--all' option of git-push built-in cmd support to push all branches
> (refs under refs/heads) to remote. Under the usage, a user can easlily
> work in some scenarios, for example, branches synchronization and batch
> upload.
>
> '--all' was introduced for a long time, meanwhile, git supports to
> customize the storage location under "refs/". when a new git user see
> the usage like, 'git push origin --all', we might feel like we're
> pushing _all_ the refs instead of just branches without looking at the
> documents until we found the related description of it or '--mirror'.
>

"--all" sounds like it will include all things: branches, tags, but it only
includes branches under ref/heads/, which does cause a little confusion
for users.

> To ensure compatibility, we cannot rename '--all' to another name
> directly, one way is, we can try to add a new option '--heads' which be
> identical with the functionality of '--all' to let the user understand
> the meaning of representation more clearly. Actually, We've more or less
> named options this way already, for example, in 'git-show-ref' and 'git
> ls-remote'.
>
> At the same time, we fix a related issue about the wrong help
> information of '--all' option in code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-push.txt |  1 +
>  builtin/push.c             | 13 +++++++------
>  t/t5523-push-upstream.sh   | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> index 5bb1d5aae25..a5d18fb90b6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ already exists on the remote side.
>  `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
>
>  --all::
> +--heads::
>         Push all branches (i.e. refs under `refs/heads/`); cannot be
>         used with other <refspec>.
>
> diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c
> index 60ac8017e52..970cabaa78b 100644
> --- a/builtin/push.c
> +++ b/builtin/push.c
> @@ -588,11 +588,12 @@ int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>         struct option options[] = {
>                 OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
>                 OPT_STRING( 0 , "repo", &repo, N_("repository"), N_("repository")),
> -               OPT_BIT( 0 , "all", &flags, N_("push all refs"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
> +               OPT_BIT( 0 , "all", &flags, N_("push all branches"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
> +               OPT_BIT( 0 , "heads", &flags, N_("push all branches"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),

Maybe OPT_ALIAS() will be better?
Teng Long Dec. 6, 2022, 12:18 p.m. UTC | #2
> > '--all' was introduced for a long time, meanwhile, git supports to
> > customize the storage location under "refs/". when a new git user see
> > the usage like, 'git push origin --all', we might feel like we're
> > pushing _all_ the refs instead of just branches without looking at the
> > documents until we found the related description of it or '--mirror'.
> >
>
> "--all" sounds like it will include all things: branches, tags, but it only
> includes branches under ref/heads/, which does cause a little confusion
> for users.

"under refs/heads", right (^ヮ^)? But The overall is nice to
me, I'm sure I will use some to revise.

> Maybe OPT_ALIAS() will be better?

I think it's suitable for this if there is no misunderstanding for
'OPT_ALIAS()'.

Thanks.
Felipe Contreras April 28, 2023, 12:21 p.m. UTC | #3
Teng Long wrote:
> From: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
> 
> The '--all' option of git-push built-in cmd support to push all branches
> (refs under refs/heads) to remote. Under the usage, a user can easlily
> work in some scenarios, for example, branches synchronization and batch
> upload.
> 
> '--all' was introduced for a long time, meanwhile, git supports to
> customize the storage location under "refs/". when a new git user see
> the usage like, 'git push origin --all', we might feel like we're
> pushing _all_ the refs instead of just branches without looking at the
> documents until we found the related description of it or '--mirror'.

Completely agree.

This is something I spotted a long time ago. Although I would prefer
`--branches` over `--heads`.
Teng Long April 30, 2023, 1:05 a.m. UTC | #4
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Teng Long wrote:
>> From: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
>> 
>> The '--all' option of git-push built-in cmd support to push all branches
>> (refs under refs/heads) to remote. Under the usage, a user can easlily
>> work in some scenarios, for example, branches synchronization and batch
>> upload.
>> 
>> '--all' was introduced for a long time, meanwhile, git supports to
>> customize the storage location under "refs/". when a new git user see
>> the usage like, 'git push origin --all', we might feel like we're
>> pushing _all_ the refs instead of just branches without looking at the
>> documents until we found the related description of it or '--mirror'.
>
>Completely agree.
>
>This is something I spotted a long time ago. Although I would prefer
>`--branches` over `--heads`.

I will cook this recently, maybe we need some well prepared test cases
at first.

Thanks.
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 5bb1d5aae25..a5d18fb90b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@  already exists on the remote side.
 `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
 
 --all::
+--heads::
 	Push all branches (i.e. refs under `refs/heads/`); cannot be
 	used with other <refspec>.
 
diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c
index 60ac8017e52..970cabaa78b 100644
--- a/builtin/push.c
+++ b/builtin/push.c
@@ -588,11 +588,12 @@  int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
 		OPT_STRING( 0 , "repo", &repo, N_("repository"), N_("repository")),
-		OPT_BIT( 0 , "all", &flags, N_("push all refs"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
+		OPT_BIT( 0 , "all", &flags, N_("push all branches"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
+		OPT_BIT( 0 , "heads", &flags, N_("push all branches"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
 		OPT_BIT( 0 , "mirror", &flags, N_("mirror all refs"),
 			    (TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR|TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE)),
 		OPT_BOOL('d', "delete", &deleterefs, N_("delete refs")),
-		OPT_BOOL( 0 , "tags", &tags, N_("push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror)")),
+		OPT_BOOL( 0 , "tags", &tags, N_("push tags (can't be used with --all or --heads or --mirror)")),
 		OPT_BIT('n' , "dry-run", &flags, N_("dry run"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_DRY_RUN),
 		OPT_BIT( 0,  "porcelain", &flags, N_("machine-readable output"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_PORCELAIN),
 		OPT_BIT('f', "force", &flags, N_("force updates"), TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE),
@@ -635,7 +636,7 @@  int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	set_push_cert_flags(&flags, push_cert);
 
 	if (deleterefs && (tags || (flags & (TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL | TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR))))
-		die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), "--delete", "--all/--mirror/--tags");
+		die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), "--delete", "--all/--heads/--mirror/--tags");
 	if (deleterefs && argc < 2)
 		die(_("--delete doesn't make sense without any refs"));
 
@@ -673,9 +674,9 @@  int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL) {
 		if (tags)
-			die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), "--all", "--tags");
+			die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), "--all/--heads", "--tags");
 		if (argc >= 2)
-			die(_("--all can't be combined with refspecs"));
+			die(_("--all/--heads can't be combined with refspecs"));
 	}
 	if (flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR) {
 		if (tags)
@@ -684,7 +685,7 @@  int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			die(_("--mirror can't be combined with refspecs"));
 	}
 	if ((flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL) && (flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR))
-		die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), "--all", "--mirror");
+		die(_("options '%s' and '%s' cannot be used together"), "--all/--heads", "--mirror");
 
 	if (!is_empty_cas(&cas) && (flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE_IF_INCLUDES))
 		cas.use_force_if_includes = 1;
diff --git a/t/t5523-push-upstream.sh b/t/t5523-push-upstream.sh
index fdb42920564..29d03b2f58b 100755
--- a/t/t5523-push-upstream.sh
+++ b/t/t5523-push-upstream.sh
@@ -60,13 +60,18 @@  test_expect_success 'push -u :topic_2' '
 	check_config topic_2 upstream refs/heads/other2
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'push -u --all' '
-	git branch all1 &&
-	git branch all2 &&
-	git push -u --all &&
-	check_config all1 upstream refs/heads/all1 &&
-	check_config all2 upstream refs/heads/all2
-'
+
+for option in 'all' 'heads'
+do
+
+	test_expect_success "push -u --$option" '
+		git branch "$option"1 &&
+		git branch "$option"2 &&
+		git push -u --"$option" &&
+		check_config "$option"1 upstream refs/heads/"$option"1 &&
+		check_config "$option"2 upstream refs/heads/"$option"2
+	'
+done
 
 test_expect_success 'push -u HEAD' '
 	git checkout -b headbranch &&