bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info

Teach Git how to prompt the user for a good bug report: reproduction
steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior. Later, Git can learn how
to collect some diagnostic information from the repository.

If users can send us a well-written bug report which contains diagnostic
information we would otherwise need to ask the user for, we can reduce
the number of question-and-answer round trips between the reporter and
the Git contributor.

Users may also wish to send a report like this to their local "Git
expert" if they have put their repository into a state they are confused
by.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 105 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bugreport.c b/bugreport.c
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index 0000000000..f6f53a5e8e
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+++ b/bugreport.c
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+#include "builtin.h"
+#include "parse-options.h"
+#include "stdio.h"
+#include "strbuf.h"
+#include "time.h"
+
+static const char * const bugreport_usage[] = {
+	N_("git bugreport [-o|--output-directory <file>] [-s|--suffix <format>]"),
+	NULL
+};
+
+static int get_bug_template(struct strbuf *template)
+{
+	const char template_text[] = N_(
+"Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!\n"
+"Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.\n"
+"\n"
+"What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)\n"
+"\n"
+"What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)\n"
+"\n"
+"What happened instead? (Actual behavior)\n"
+"\n"
+"What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?\n"
+"\n"
+"Anything else you want to add:\n"
+"\n"
+"Please review the rest of the bug report below.\n"
+"You can delete any lines you don't wish to share.\n");
+
+	strbuf_addstr(template, _(template_text));
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int cmd_main(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+	struct strbuf buffer = STRBUF_INIT;
+	struct strbuf report_path = STRBUF_INIT;
+	int report = -1;
+	time_t now = time(NULL);
+	char *option_output = NULL;
+	char *option_suffix = "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M";
+	int nongit_ok = 0;
+	const char *prefix = NULL;
+	const char *user_relative_path = NULL;
+
+	const struct option bugreport_options[] = {
+		OPT_STRING('o', "output-directory", &option_output, N_("path"),
+			   N_("specify a destination for the bugreport file")),
+		OPT_STRING('s', "suffix", &option_suffix, N_("format"),
+			   N_("specify a strftime format suffix for the filename")),
+		OPT_END()
+	};
+
+	prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit_ok);
+
+	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, bugreport_options,
+			     bugreport_usage, 0);
+
+	/* Prepare the path to put the result */
+	strbuf_addstr(&report_path,
+		      prefix_filename(prefix,
+				      option_output ? option_output : ""));
+	strbuf_complete(&report_path, '/');
+
+	strbuf_addstr(&report_path, "git-bugreport-");
+	strbuf_addftime(&report_path, option_suffix, localtime(&now), 0, 0);
+	strbuf_addstr(&report_path, ".txt");
+
+	switch (safe_create_leading_directories(report_path.buf)) {
+	case SCLD_OK:
+	case SCLD_EXISTS:
+		break;
+	default:
+		die(_("could not create leading directories for '%s'"),
+		    report_path.buf);
+	}
+
+	/* Prepare the report contents */
+	get_bug_template(&buffer);
+
+	/* fopen doesn't offer us an O_EXCL alternative, except with glibc. */
+	report = open(report_path.buf, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0666);
+
+	if (report < 0) {
+		UNLEAK(report_path);
+		die(_("couldn't create a new file at '%s'"), report_path.buf);
+	}
+
+	strbuf_write_fd(&buffer, report);
+	close(report);
+
+	/*
+	 * We want to print the path relative to the user, but we still need the
+	 * path relative to us to give to the editor.
+	 */
+	if (!(prefix && skip_prefix(report_path.buf, prefix, &user_relative_path)))
+		user_relative_path = report_path.buf;
+	fprintf(stderr, _("Created new report at '%s'.\n"),
+		user_relative_path);
+
+	UNLEAK(buffer);
+	UNLEAK(report_path);
+	return !!launch_editor(report_path.buf, NULL, NULL);
+}