[libvirt] [PATCH] build: fix gitignore sorting

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Apr 7 21:30:00 UTC 2011


On 04/07/2011 01:26 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 06:51 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Make it so we don't have to 'git add -f' particular files like
>> po/POTFILES.in all the time (tested by fixing one of our
>> special-case files as part of the patch).
>>
>> * .gnulib: Update to latest.
>> * bootstrap: Resync from coreutils.
>> * .gitignore: Sort whitelist entries correctly, including ignoring
>> files rather than directories.
>> * m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4: Convert tabs to space.
>> ---

> 
> ACK (once Eric explained the sed construct I'd never seen before :-)

Thanks; pushed.

> 
>> +# Ensure that lines starting with ! sort last, per gitignore conventions
>> +# for whitelisting exceptions after a more generic blacklist pattern.
>> +sort_patterns() {
>> +  sort -u "$@" | sed

Sed has two buffers - the pattern space (which gets printed for every
line of input unless it is empty) and the hold space (which is used for
scratch work).

 '/^!/ {
>> +    H
>> +    d
>> +  }

For all lines that start with !, append a newline and that line into the
hold space, then delete the line from the pattern space (so skip
printing ! lines the first time through).

>> +  $ {
>> +    P
>> +    x
>> +    s/^\n//
>> +  }'

On the last line, print the line like normal, then exchange pattern and
buffer spaces, remove the extra leading newline that got put in the hold
space on the first ! line, then print all the deferred ! lines.

> Yeah, that's the one...

I don't blame you for asking - sed's got some pretty arcane (but cool)
features.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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