Users of the ref-filter code must call verify_ref_format()
before formatting any refs, but most ignore its return
value. This means we may print an error on a syntactically
bogus pattern, but keep going anyway.
In most cases this results in a fatal error when we actually
try to format a ref. But if you have no refs to show at all,
then the behavior is confusing: git prints the error from
verify_ref_format(), then exits with code 0 without showing
any output. Let's instead abort immediately if we know we
have a bogus format.
We'll output the usage information if we have it handy (just
like the existing call in cmd_for_each_ref() does), and
otherwise just die().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/branch.c | 4 +++-
builtin/tag.c | 7 ++++---
builtin/verify-tag.c | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 8a0595e11..e756a5667 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -409,7 +409,9 @@ static void print_ref_list(struct ref_filter *filter, struct ref_sorting *sortin
if (!format)
format = to_free = build_format(filter, maxwidth, remote_prefix);
- verify_ref_format(format);
+
+ if (verify_ref_format(format))
+ die(_("unable to parse format string"));
ref_array_sort(sorting, &array);
diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index 01154ea8d..216629fb2 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ static int list_tags(struct ref_filter *filter, struct ref_sorting *sorting, con
format = "%(refname:lstrip=2)";
}
- verify_ref_format(format);
+ if (verify_ref_format(format))
+ die(_("unable to parse format string"));
filter->with_commit_tag_algo = 1;
filter_refs(&array, filter, FILTER_REFS_TAGS);
ref_array_sort(sorting, &array);
@@ -501,8 +502,8 @@ int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (cmdmode == 'd')
return for_each_tag_name(argv, delete_tag, NULL);
if (cmdmode == 'v') {
- if (format)
- verify_ref_format(format);
+ if (format && verify_ref_format(format))
+ usage_with_options(git_tag_usage, options);
return for_each_tag_name(argv, verify_tag, format);
}
diff --git a/builtin/verify-tag.c b/builtin/verify-tag.c
index f9a5f7535..a10eca2b2 100644
--- a/builtin/verify-tag.c
+++ b/builtin/verify-tag.c
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ int cmd_verify_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
flags |= GPG_VERIFY_VERBOSE;
if (fmt_pretty) {
- verify_ref_format(fmt_pretty);
+ if (verify_ref_format(fmt_pretty))
+ usage_with_options(verify_tag_usage,
+ verify_tag_options);
flags |= GPG_VERIFY_OMIT_STATUS;
}
--
2.13.2.1157.gc6daca446
