[PATCH b4 1/6] git_run_command: look past -c overrides for the subcommand

Christian Brauner <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:44:28 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.linux.tools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
git_run_command() counteracts a local log.abbrevCommit by inserting
--no-abbrev-commit after the subcommand, which it expects at args[0].
That holds only as long as no caller passes git-level options first.

The next patch adds a list of -c overrides that callers prefix to their
arguments. With it args[0] is '-c', the fixup stops firing and nothing
says so. b4 parses full shas out of git-log output in several places,
so a user with log.abbrevCommit=true would get short ones back.

Skip over leading -c key=value pairs when looking for the subcommand.
While we are here, stop inserting into the caller's list in place.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <[email protected]>
---
 src/b4/__init__.py | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/b4/__init__.py b/src/b4/__init__.py
index f66d38d..8afbbab 100644
--- a/src/b4/__init__.py
+++ b/src/b4/__init__.py
@@ -3664,9 +3664,13 @@ def git_run_command(
                 gitdir = dotgit
             cmdargs += ['--git-dir', str(gitdir)]
 
-    # counteract some potential local settings
-    if args[0] == 'log':
-        args.insert(1, '--no-abbrev-commit')
+    # counteract some potential local settings; the subcommand is not
+    # necessarily args[0] because callers may prefix -c overrides
+    subcmd = 0
+    while subcmd + 1 < len(args) and args[subcmd] == '-c':
+        subcmd += 2
+    if subcmd < len(args) and args[subcmd] == 'log':
+        args = args[: subcmd + 1] + ['--no-abbrev-commit'] + args[subcmd + 1 :]
 
     cmdargs += args
 

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2.53.0