fix: set description from stdin to allow messages starting with minus#475
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hey @kankri thanks for the PR
since this is an issue with jj (as pointed out in this comment), it might be better to wait for jj to handle jj describe -m "--test"
on the other hand, do you know if there's a way to actually pass in - as the first character to jj describe?
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Commit messages can be long and contain arbitrary characters, I'm afraid to find out later what other corner cases there are in addition to the most visible issue with "clap" parsing and the initial minus character. Even if Jj eventually fixes passing minus as the 1st character in the "-m" option, I feel that using "--stdin" is much safer, especially in Windows where the command line is a single string with a limited length and needs to be constructed by quoting with some arcane rules. |
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Setting the description from stdin avoids command line parsing issues when the message cannot be properly quoted. E.g. "jj describe -m -foo" gives the error "error: unexpected argument '-f' found".
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Hey, thanks for this.
This is really a smart solution to the problem and it works as expected.
The only sad thing is that we ended up adding one more specialised run method to the runner interface but I guess it is inevitable for the time being.
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Setting the description from stdin avoids command line parsing issues when the message cannot be properly quoted.
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jj describe -m -foogives the errorerror: unexpected argument '-f' found.This fixes #315.