Hi Jonathan, On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > Does the 'exec' after the fi need this as well? exec is supposed to > > itself print a message and exit when it runs into an error. Would > > including an 'else' with the if make the control flow clearer? E.g. > > > > if test -n "$TEST_GDB_GIT" > > then > > exec gdb --args "${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@" "$@" > > else > > exec "${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@" "$@" > > fi > > I suppose you're right! The `exec` can fail easily, e.g. when `gdb` was > not found. Actually, after reading the patch again, I think it is better to be less intrusive and add the error message *just* for the gdb case, as it is right now: -- snipsnap -- export GIT_EXEC_PATH GITPERLLIB PATH GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR +if test -n "$TEST_GDB_GIT" +then + exec gdb -args "${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@" "$@" + echo "Could not run gdb -args ${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@ $*" >&2 + exit 1 +fi + exec "${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@" "$@" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html