name-rev: provide debug output

Currently, `git describe --contains --debug` does not create any debug
output because it does not pass the flag down to `git name-rev`, which
does not know that flag.

Teach the latter that flag, so that the former can pass it down (in
the following commit).

The output is patterned after that of `git describe --debug`, with the
following differences:

describe loops over all args to describe, then over all possible
descriptions; name-rev does it the other way round. Therefore, we need
to amend each possible description by the arg that it is for (and we
leave out the "searching to describe" header).

The date cut-off for name-rev kicks in way more often than the candidate
number cut-off of describe, so we do not clutter the output with the
cut-off.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: mjg

Documentation/git-name-rev.txt

@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ OPTIONS
 --all::
 	List all commits reachable from all refs
 
+--debug::
+	Verbosely display information about the searching strategy
+	being employed to standard error.  The symbolic name will still
+	be printed to standard out.
+
 --stdin::
 	Transform stdin by substituting all the 40-character SHA-1
 	hexes (say $hex) with "$hex ($rev_name)".  When used with

builtin/name-rev.c

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ typedef struct rev_name {
 
 static long cutoff = LONG_MAX;
 
+static const char *prio_names[] = {
+	N_("head"), N_("lightweight"), N_("annotated"),
+};
+
 /* How many generations are maximally preferred over _one_ merge traversal? */
 #define MERGE_TRAVERSAL_WEIGHT 65535
 
@@ -59,10 +63,19 @@ static int is_better_name(struct rev_name *name,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+struct name_ref_data {
+	int tags_only;
+	int name_only;
+	int debug;
+	struct string_list ref_filters;
+	struct string_list exclude_filters;
+	struct object_array *revs;
+};
+
 static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
 		const char *tip_name, unsigned long taggerdate,
 		int generation, int distance, int from_tag,
-		int deref)
+		int deref, struct name_ref_data *data)
 {
 	struct rev_name *name = (struct rev_name *)commit->util;
 	struct commit_list *parents;
@@ -75,6 +88,7 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
 
 	if (deref) {
 		tip_name = xstrfmt("%s^0", tip_name);
+		from_tag += 1;
 
 		if (generation)
 			die("generation: %d, but deref?", generation);
@@ -87,6 +101,36 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
 	} else if (is_better_name(name, tip_name, taggerdate,
 				  generation, distance, from_tag)) {
 copy_data:
+		if (data->debug) {
+			int i;
+			static int label_width = -1;
+			static int name_width = -1;
+			if (label_width < 0) {
+				int w;
+				for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(prio_names); i++) {
+					w = strlen(_(prio_names[i]));
+					if (label_width < w)
+						label_width = w;
+				}
+			}
+			if (name_width < 0) {
+				int w;
+				for (i = 0; i < data->revs->nr; i++) {
+					w = strlen(data->revs->objects[i].name);
+					if (name_width < w)
+						name_width = w;
+				}
+			}
+			for (i = 0; i < data->revs->nr; i++)
+				if (!oidcmp(&commit->object.oid,
+					    &data->revs->objects[i].item->oid))
+					fprintf(stderr, " %-*s %8d %-*s %s~%d\n",
+						label_width,
+						_(prio_names[from_tag]),
+						distance, name_width,
+						data->revs->objects[i].name,
+						tip_name, generation);
+		}
 		name->tip_name = tip_name;
 		name->taggerdate = taggerdate;
 		name->generation = generation;
@@ -112,11 +156,11 @@ static void name_rev(struct commit *commit,
 
 			name_rev(parents->item, new_name, taggerdate, 0,
 				 distance + MERGE_TRAVERSAL_WEIGHT,
-				 from_tag, 0);
+				 from_tag, 0, data);
 		} else {
 			name_rev(parents->item, tip_name, taggerdate,
 				 generation + 1, distance + 1,
-				 from_tag, 0);
+				 from_tag, 0, data);
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -146,13 +190,6 @@ static const char *name_ref_abbrev(const char *refname, int shorten_unambiguous)
 	return refname;
 }
 
-struct name_ref_data {
-	int tags_only;
-	int name_only;
-	struct string_list ref_filters;
-	struct string_list exclude_filters;
-};
-
 static struct tip_table {
 	struct tip_table_entry {
 		unsigned char sha1[20];
@@ -236,7 +273,6 @@ static int name_ref(const char *path, const struct object_id *oid, int flags, vo
 	}
 
 	add_to_tip_table(oid->hash, path, can_abbreviate_output);
-
 	while (o && o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
 		struct tag *t = (struct tag *) o;
 		if (!t->tagged)
@@ -253,7 +289,7 @@ static int name_ref(const char *path, const struct object_id *oid, int flags, vo
 			taggerdate = ((struct commit *)o)->date;
 		path = name_ref_abbrev(path, can_abbreviate_output);
 		name_rev(commit, xstrdup(path), taggerdate, 0, 0,
-			 from_tag, deref);
+			 from_tag, deref, data);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -383,7 +419,7 @@ int cmd_name_rev(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	struct object_array revs = OBJECT_ARRAY_INIT;
 	int all = 0, transform_stdin = 0, allow_undefined = 1, always = 0, peel_tag = 0;
-	struct name_ref_data data = { 0, 0, STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP, STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP };
+	struct name_ref_data data = { 0, 0, 0, STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP, STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP };
 	struct option opts[] = {
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "name-only", &data.name_only, N_("print only names (no SHA-1)")),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "tags", &data.tags_only, N_("only use tags to name the commits")),
@@ -393,6 +429,7 @@ int cmd_name_rev(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 				   N_("ignore refs matching <pattern>")),
 		OPT_GROUP(""),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "all", &all, N_("list all commits reachable from all refs")),
+		OPT_BOOL(0, "debug", &data.debug, N_("debug search strategy on stderr")),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "stdin", &transform_stdin, N_("read from stdin")),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "undefined", &allow_undefined, N_("allow to print `undefined` names (default)")),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "always",     &always,
@@ -458,6 +495,7 @@ int cmd_name_rev(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (cutoff)
 		cutoff = cutoff - CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP;
+	data.revs = &revs;
 	for_each_ref(name_ref, &data);
 
 	if (transform_stdin) {