Instead of dying there, let the caller high up in the callchain notice the error and handle it (by dying, still). The function sequencer_pick_revisions() is the only caller of walk_revs_populate_todo(), and it already returns errors appropriately, so its caller must be already prepared to handle error returns, and with this step, we make it notice an error return from this function. So this is a safe conversion to make walk_revs_populate_todo() callable from new callers that want it not to die, without changing the external behaviour of anything existing. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 7eef512..ea2681e 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -809,17 +809,19 @@ static void read_populate_opts(struct replay_opts **opts_ptr) die(_("Malformed options sheet: %s"), git_path_opts_file()); } -static void walk_revs_populate_todo(struct commit_list **todo_list, +static int walk_revs_populate_todo(struct commit_list **todo_list, struct replay_opts *opts) { struct commit *commit; struct commit_list **next; - prepare_revs(opts); + if (prepare_revs(opts)) + return -1; next = todo_list; while ((commit = get_revision(opts->revs))) next = commit_list_append(commit, next); + return 0; } static int create_seq_dir(void) @@ -1102,8 +1104,8 @@ int sequencer_pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts) * progress */ - walk_revs_populate_todo(&todo_list, opts); - if (create_seq_dir() < 0) + if (walk_revs_populate_todo(&todo_list, opts) || + create_seq_dir() < 0) return -1; if (get_sha1("HEAD", sha1) && (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)) return error(_("Can't revert as initial commit")); -- 2.10.0.rc1.99.gcd66998 -- 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