Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:10:59AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> I think that makes sense. Like this patch?
>>
>> -- >8 --
>> Subject: [PATCH] config: warn on inaccessible files
>>
>> Before reading a config file, we check "!access(path, R_OK)"
>> to make sure that the file exists and is readable. If it's
>> not, then we silently ignore it.
>>
>> For the case of ENOENT, this is fine, as the presence of the
>> file is optional. For other cases, though, it may indicate a
>> configuration error (e.g., not having permissions to read
>> the file). Let's print a warning in these cases to let the
>> user know.
>
> And this might be a good follow-on:
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] gitignore: report access errors of exclude files
>
> When we try to access gitignore files, we check for their
> existence with a call to "access". We silently ignore
> missing files. However, if a file is not readable, this may
> be a configuration error; let's warn the user.
>
> For $GIT_DIR/info/excludes or core.excludesfile, we can just
> use access_or_warn. However, for per-directory files we
> actually try to open them, so we must add a custom warning.
There are a couple of users of add_excludes_from_file() that is
outside the per-directory walking in ls-files and unpack-trees; I
think both are OK with this change, but the one in ls-files may want
to issue a warning or even an error upon ENOENT.
Not a regression with this patch; just something we may want to do
while we are in the vicinity.
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> dir.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
> index 240bf0c..4ee16b5 100644
> --- a/dir.c
> +++ b/dir.c
> @@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname,
>
> fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY);
> if (fd < 0 || fstat(fd, &st) < 0) {
> + if (errno != ENOENT)
> + warn(_("unable to access '%s': %s"), fname, strerror(errno));
> if (0 <= fd)
> close(fd);
> if (!check_index ||
> @@ -1311,9 +1313,9 @@ void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir)
> home_config_paths(NULL, &xdg_path, "ignore");
> excludes_file = xdg_path;
> }
> - if (!access(path, R_OK))
> + if (!access_or_warn(path, R_OK))
> add_excludes_from_file(dir, path);
> - if (excludes_file && !access(excludes_file, R_OK))
> + if (excludes_file && !access_or_warn(excludes_file, R_OK))
> add_excludes_from_file(dir, excludes_file);
> }
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