Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Commit b0db704652 (pathspec: allow querying for attributes - >> 2017-03-13) adds new pathspec magic 'attr' but only with >> match_pathspec(). "git add" has some pathspec related code that still >> does not know about 'attr' and will bail out: >> >> $ git add ':(attr:foo)' >> fatal: BUG:dir.c:1584: unsupported magic 40 >> >> A better solution would be making this code support 'attr'. But I >> don't know how much work is needed (I'm not familiar with this new >> magic). For now, let's simply reject this magic with a friendlier >> message: >> >> $ git add ':(attr:foo)' >> fatal: :(attr:foo): pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'attr' >> >> Reported-by: smaudet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Since Brandon is currently unreachable, let's do this for now. > > Thanks. This certainly make it better than the status quo. And of course, there is an interesting glitch found after I almost finish day's integration cycle X-<. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] fixup! add: do not accept pathspec magic 'attr' [Add the following when squashing] Update t6135 so that the expected error message is from the "graceful" rejection codepath, not "oops, we were supposed to reject the request to trigger this magic" codepath. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh index 77b8cef661..e436a73962 100755 --- a/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh +++ b/t/t6135-pathspec-with-attrs.sh @@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ test_expect_success 'fail if attr magic is used places not implemented' ' # when you attempt to use attr magic in commands that do not implement # attr magic. This test does not advocate git-add to stay that way, # though, but git-add is convenient as it has its own internal pathspec # parsing. test_must_fail git add ":(attr:labelB)" 2>actual && - test_i18ngrep "unsupported magic" actual + test_i18ngrep "magic not supported" actual ' test_expect_success 'abort on giving invalid label on the command line' ' test_must_fail git ls-files . ":(attr:☺)" ' -- 2.19.0-216-g2d3b1c576c
