config: add `git_die_config()` to the config-set API

Add `git_die_config` that dies printing the line number and the file name
of the highest priority value for the configuration variable `key`. A custom
error message is also printed before dying, specified by the caller, which can
be skipped if `err` argument is set to NULL.

It has usage in non-callback based config value retrieval where we can
raise an error and die if there is a semantic error.
For example,

	if (!git_config_get_value(key, &value)){
		if (!strcmp(value, "foo"))
			git_config_die(key, "value: `%s` is illegal", value);
		else
			/* do work */
	}

Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index cd59c4a0f2..8449a8ac45 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1471,8 +1471,12 @@ const struct string_list *git_config_get_value_multi(const char *key)
 
 int git_config_get_string_const(const char *key, const char **dest)
 {
+	int ret;
 	git_config_check_init();
-	return git_configset_get_string_const(&the_config_set, key, dest);
+	ret = git_configset_get_string_const(&the_config_set, key, dest);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		git_die_config(key, NULL);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 int git_config_get_string(const char *key, char **dest)
@@ -1513,8 +1517,39 @@ int git_config_get_maybe_bool(const char *key, int *dest)
 
 int git_config_get_pathname(const char *key, const char **dest)
 {
+	int ret;
 	git_config_check_init();
-	return git_configset_get_pathname(&the_config_set, key, dest);
+	ret = git_configset_get_pathname(&the_config_set, key, dest);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		git_die_config(key, NULL);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+NORETURN
+void git_die_config_linenr(const char *key, const char *filename, int linenr)
+{
+	if (!filename)
+		die(_("unable to parse '%s' from command-line config"), key);
+	else
+		die(_("bad config variable '%s' in file '%s' at line %d"),
+		    key, filename, linenr);
+}
+
+NORETURN __attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)))
+void git_die_config(const char *key, const char *err, ...)
+{
+	const struct string_list *values;
+	struct key_value_info *kv_info;
+
+	if (err) {
+		va_list params;
+		va_start(params, err);
+		vreportf("error: ", err, params);
+		va_end(params);
+	}
+	values = git_config_get_value_multi(key);
+	kv_info = values->items[values->nr - 1].util;
+	git_die_config_linenr(key, kv_info->filename, kv_info->linenr);
 }
 
 /*