Re: [PATCH] git.c: Re-introduce sane error messages on missing commands.

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:


Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:


Try this:

$ mkdir 5
$ cd 5
$ git-init-db
$ rm .git/config # yes, really.
$ git abc

Thanks for trying to help, but not really.


Okay. Does not happen with 'next' here, too. I have some changes in my private repo (which eventually should culminate in the big mmap()ed sooper config parsing / writing thingie), which make it break. The following patch fixes this (and potentially Andreas' problem, too).


It should, although the command it tried to execute will still be empty if it fails for some other reason (file not executable / permission denied), since it only does the right thing on ENOENT.

This is also, imo, a bit worse than preserving the errno from the execve() call in the caller, since errno is sometimes a macro (yes, only in threaded apps atm, but still...), and it will be easy to forget to look in handle_alias() if other things change in main() that makes this bug resurface.

Oh, and the part of my patch removing the git_command variable from git.c:main() still has to be applied for arbitrary error-messages to look sane.

$ grep -B1 git_command git.c
        char *slash = strrchr(cmd, '/');
        char git_command[PATH_MAX + 1];
--
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to run command '%s': %s\n",
                git_command, strerror(errno));


Btw, Junio, did you try this with 'master' as of yesterday morning (git version 1.4.1.rc1.g1ef9)? It's reproducible on every machine I've tried so far (well, only five, but still), so it seems odd that you don't see it.

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