Previously, callers of merge_trees() or merge_recursive() expected that
code to die() with an error message. This used to be okay because we
called those commands from scripts, and had a chance to print out a
message in case the command failed fatally (read: with exit code 128).
As scripting incurs its own set of problems (portability, speed,
idiosynchracies of different shells, limited data structures leading to
inefficient code), we are converting more and more of these scripts into
builtins, using library functions directly.
We already tried to use merge_recursive() directly in the builtin
git-am, for example. Unfortunately, we had to roll it back temporarily
because some of the code in merge-recursive.c still deemed it okay to
call die(), when the builtin am code really wanted to print out a useful
advice after the merge failed fatally. In the next commits, we want to
fix that.
The code touched by this commit expected merge_trees() to die() with
some useful message when there is an error condition, but merge_trees()
is going to be improved by converting all die() calls to return error()
instead (i.e. return value -1 after printing out the message as before),
so that the caller can react more flexibly.
This is a step to prepare for the version of merge_trees() that no
longer dies, even if we just imitate the previous behavior by calling
exit(128): this is what callers of e.g. `git merge` have come to expect.
Note that the callers of the sequencer (revert and cherry-pick) already
fail fast even for the return value -1; The only difference is that they
now get a chance to say "<command> failed".
A caller of merge_trees() might want handle error messages themselves
(or even suppress them). As this patch is already complex enough, we
leave that change for a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
---
builtin/checkout.c | 4 +++-
builtin/merge.c | 2 ++
sequencer.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index c3486bd..14312f7 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -567,8 +567,10 @@ static int merge_working_tree(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
o.ancestor = old->name;
o.branch1 = new->name;
o.branch2 = "local";
- merge_trees(&o, new->commit->tree, work,
+ ret = merge_trees(&o, new->commit->tree, work,
old->commit->tree, &result);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ exit(128);
ret = reset_tree(new->commit->tree, opts, 0,
writeout_error);
if (ret)
diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index b555a1b..7b898db 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -682,6 +682,8 @@ static int try_merge_strategy(const char *strategy, struct commit_list *common,
hold_locked_index(&lock, 1);
clean = merge_recursive(&o, head,
remoteheads->item, reversed, &result);
+ if (clean < 0)
+ exit(128);
if (active_cache_changed &&
write_locked_index(&the_index, &lock, COMMIT_LOCK))
die (_("unable to write %s"), get_index_file());
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index c6362d6..13b794a 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ static int do_recursive_merge(struct commit *base, struct commit *next,
clean = merge_trees(&o,
head_tree,
next_tree, base_tree, &result);
+ if (clean < 0)
+ return clean;
if (active_cache_changed &&
write_locked_index(&the_index, &index_lock, COMMIT_LOCK))
@@ -561,6 +563,8 @@ static int do_pick_commit(struct commit *commit, struct replay_opts *opts)
if (!opts->strategy || !strcmp(opts->strategy, "recursive") || opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT) {
res = do_recursive_merge(base, next, base_label, next_label,
head, &msgbuf, opts);
+ if (res < 0)
+ return res;
write_message(&msgbuf, git_path_merge_msg());
} else {
struct commit_list *common = NULL;
--
2.9.0.280.g32e2a70
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