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authorMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>2012-06-18 20:18:21 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-06-18 15:21:42 -0700
commit023e37c37780d6a56f2870a979c8eb3a9ee9a44d (patch)
tree74075e3fc2bf0cf4ca3997d1a745948a82c13e89 /setup.c
parentd7236c4395a0c8742871a72d920f789b5bd4abf6 (diff)
downloadgit-023e37c37780d6a56f2870a979c8eb3a9ee9a44d.tar.gz
verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
verify_filename() can be called in two different contexts. Either we just tried to interpret a string as an object name, and it fails, so we try looking for a working tree file (i.e. we finished looking at revs that come earlier on the command line, and the next argument must be a pathname), or we _know_ that we are looking for a pathname, and shouldn't even try interpreting the string as an object name. For example, with this change, we get: $ git log COPYING HEAD:inexistant fatal: HEAD:inexistant: no such path in the working tree. Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally. $ git log HEAD:inexistant fatal: Path 'inexistant' does not exist in 'HEAD' Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'setup.c')
-rw-r--r--setup.c27
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 61c22e6bec..d121b6ab77 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -53,11 +53,17 @@ int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
die_errno("failed to stat '%s'", arg);
}
-static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
+static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix,
+ const char *arg,
+ int diagnose_misspelt_rev)
{
unsigned char sha1[20];
unsigned mode;
+ if (!diagnose_misspelt_rev)
+ die("%s: no such path in the working tree.\n"
+ "Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.",
+ arg);
/*
* Saying "'(icase)foo' does not exist in the index" when the
* user gave us ":(icase)foo" is just stupid. A magic pathspec
@@ -80,14 +86,29 @@ static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
* as true, because even if such a filename were to exist, we want
* it to be preceded by the "--" marker (or we want the user to
* use a format like "./-filename")
+ *
+ * The "diagnose_misspelt_rev" is used to provide a user-friendly
+ * diagnosis when dying upon finding that "name" is not a pathname.
+ * If set to 1, the diagnosis will try to diagnose "name" as an
+ * invalid object name (e.g. HEAD:foo). If set to 0, the diagnosis
+ * will only complain about an inexisting file.
+ *
+ * This function is typically called to check that a "file or rev"
+ * argument is unambiguous. In this case, the caller will want
+ * diagnose_misspelt_rev == 1 when verifying the first non-rev
+ * argument (which could have been a revision), and
+ * diagnose_misspelt_rev == 0 for the next ones (because we already
+ * saw a filename, there's not ambiguity anymore).
*/
-void verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
+void verify_filename(const char *prefix,
+ const char *arg,
+ int diagnose_misspelt_rev)
{
if (*arg == '-')
die("bad flag '%s' used after filename", arg);
if (check_filename(prefix, arg))
return;
- die_verify_filename(prefix, arg);
+ die_verify_filename(prefix, arg, diagnose_misspelt_rev);
}
/*