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2017-06-21die(): stop hiding errors due to overzealous recursion guardÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Change the recursion limit for the default die routine from a *very* low 1 to 1024. This ensures that infinite recursions are broken, but doesn't lose the meaningful error messages under threaded execution where threads concurrently start to die. The intent of the existing code, as explained in commit cd163d4b4e ("usage.c: detect recursion in die routines and bail out immediately", 2012-11-14), is to break infinite recursion in cases where the die routine itself calls die(), and would thus infinitely recurse. However, doing that very aggressively by immediately printing out "recursion detected in die handler" if we've already called die() once means that threaded invocations of git can end up only printing out the "recursion detected" error, while hiding the meaningful error. An example of this is running a threaded grep which dies on execution against pretty much any repo, git.git will do: git grep -P --threads=8 '(*LIMIT_MATCH=1)-?-?-?---$' With the current version of git this will print some combination of multiple PCRE failures that caused the abort and multiple "recursion detected", some invocations will print out multiple "recursion detected" errors with no PCRE error at all! Before this change, running the above grep command 1000 times against git.git[1] and taking the top 20 results will on my system yield the following distribution of actual errors ("E") and recursion errors ("R"): 322 E R 306 E 116 E R R 65 R R 54 R E 49 E E 44 R 15 E R R R 9 R R R 7 R E R 5 R R E 3 E R R R R 2 E E R 1 R R R R 1 R R R E 1 R E R R The exact results are obviously random and system-dependent, but this shows the race condition in this code. Some small part of the time we're about to print out the actual error ("E") but another thread's recursion error beats us to it, and sometimes we print out nothing but the recursion error. With this change we get, now with "W" to mean the new warning being emitted indicating that we've called die() many times: 502 E 160 E W E 120 E E 53 E W 35 E W E E 34 W E E 29 W E E E 16 E E W 16 E E E 11 W E E E E 7 E E W E 4 W E 3 W W E E 2 E W E E E 1 W W E 1 W E W E 1 E W W E E E 1 E W W E E 1 E W W E 1 E W E E W Which still sucks a bit, due to a still present race-condition in this code we're sometimes going to print out several errors still, or several warnings, or two duplicate errors without the warning. But we will never have a case where we completely hide the actual error as we do now. Now, git-grep could make use of the pluggable error facility added in commit c19a490e37 ("usage: allow pluggable die-recursion checks", 2013-04-16). There's other threaded code that calls set_die_routine() or set_die_is_recursing_routine(). But this is about fixing the general die() behavior with threading when we don't have such a custom routine yet. Right now the common case is not an infinite recursion in the handler, but us losing error messages by default because we're overly paranoid about our recursion check. So let's just set the recursion limit to a number higher than the number of threads we're ever likely to spawn. Now we won't lose errors, and if we have a recursing die handler we'll still die within microseconds. There are race conditions in this code itself, in particular the "dying" variable is not thread mutexed, so we e.g. won't be dying at exactly 1024, or for that matter even be able to accurately test "dying == 2", see the cases where we print out more than one "W" above. But that doesn't really matter, for the recursion guard we just need to die "soon", not at exactly 1024 calls, and for printing the correct error and only one warning most of the time in the face of threaded death this is good enough and a net improvement on the current code. 1. for i in {1..1000}; do git grep -P --threads=8 '(*LIMIT_MATCH=1)-?-?-?---$' 2>&1|perl -pe 's/^fatal: r.*/R/; s/^fatal: p.*/E/; s/^warning.*/W/' | tr '\n' ' '; echo; done | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 20 Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-13Merge branch 'bw/forking-and-threading' into maintJunio C Hamano
The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust against dead-locking in a threaded environment. * bw/forking-and-threading: usage.c: drop set_error_handle() run-command: restrict PATH search to executable files run-command: expose is_executable function run-command: block signals between fork and execve run-command: add note about forking and threading run-command: handle dup2 and close errors in child run-command: eliminate calls to error handling functions in child run-command: don't die in child when duping /dev/null run-command: prepare child environment before forking string-list: add string_list_remove function run-command: use the async-signal-safe execv instead of execvp run-command: prepare command before forking t0061: run_command executes scripts without a #! line t5550: use write_script to generate post-update hook
2017-05-22usage: add NORETURN to BUG() function definitionsRamsay Jones
Commit d8193743e0 ("usage.c: add BUG() function", 12-05-2017) added the BUG() functions and macros as a replacement for calls to die("BUG: .."). The use of NORETURN on the declarations (in git-compat-util.h) and the lack of NORETURN on the function definitions, however, leads sparse to complain thus: SP usage.c usage.c:220:6: error: symbol 'BUG_fl' redeclared with different type (originally declared at git-compat-util.h:1074) - different modifiers In order to suppress the sparse error, add the NORETURN to the function definitions. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-15usage.c: drop set_error_handle()Jeff King
The set_error_handle() function was introduced by 3b331e926 (vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandles, 2015-08-11) so that run-command could send post-fork, pre-exec errors to the parent's original stderr. That use went away in 79319b194 (run-command: eliminate calls to error handling functions in child, 2017-04-19), which pushes all of the error reporting to the parent. This leaves no callers of set_error_handle(). As we're not likely to add any new ones, let's drop it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-15usage.c: add BUG() functionJeff King
There's a convention in Git's code base to write assertions as: if (...some_bad_thing...) die("BUG: the terrible thing happened"); with the idea that users should never see a "BUG:" message (but if they, it at least gives a clue what happened). We use die() here because it's convenient, but there are a few draw-backs: 1. Without parsing the messages, it's hard for callers to distinguish BUG assertions from regular errors. For instance, it would be nice if the test suite could check that we don't hit any assertions, but test_must_fail will pass BUG deaths as OK. 2. It would be useful to add more debugging features to BUG assertions, like file/line numbers or dumping core. 3. The die() handler can be replaced, and might not actually exit the whole program (e.g., it may just pthread_exit()). This is convenient for normal errors, but for an assertion failure (which is supposed to never happen), we're probably better off taking down the whole process as quickly and cleanly as possible. We could address these by checking in die() whether the error message starts with "BUG", and behaving appropriately. But there's little advantage at that point to sharing the die() code, and only downsides (e.g., we can't change the BUG() interface independently). Moreover, converting all of the existing BUG calls reveals that the test suite does indeed trigger a few of them. Instead, this patch introduces a new BUG() function, which prints an error before dying via SIGABRT. This gives us test suite checking and core dumps. The function is actually a macro (when supported) so that we can show the file/line number. We can convert die("BUG") invocations to BUG() in further patches, dealing with any test fallouts individually. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-31Merge branch 'jk/vreport-sanitize'Junio C Hamano
An error message with an ASCII control character like '\r' in it can alter the message to hide its early part, which is problematic when a remote side gives such an error message that the local side will relay with a "remote: " prefix. * jk/vreport-sanitize: vreport: sanitize ASCII control chars Revert "vreportf: avoid intermediate buffer"
2017-01-11vreport: sanitize ASCII control charsJeff King
Our error() and die() calls may report messages with arbitrary data (e.g., filenames or even data from a remote server). Let's make it harder to cause confusion with mischievous filenames. E.g., try: git rev-parse "$(printf "\rfatal: this argument is too sneaky")" -- or git rev-parse "$(printf "\x1b[5mblinky\x1b[0m")" -- Let's block all ASCII control characters, with the exception of TAB and LF. We use both in our own messages (and we are necessarily sanitizing the complete output of snprintf here, as we do not have access to the individual varargs). And TAB and LF are unlikely to cause confusion (you could put "\nfatal: sneaky\n" in your filename, but it would at least not _cover up_ the message leading to it, unlike "\r"). We'll replace the characters with a "?", which is similar to how "ls" behaves. It might be nice to do something less lossy, like converting them to "\x" hex codes. But replacing with a single character makes it easy to do in-place and without worrying about length limitations. This feature should kick in rarely enough that the "?" marks are almost never seen. We'll leave high-bit characters as-is, as they are likely to be UTF-8 (though there may be some Unicode mischief you could cause, which may require further patches). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-11Revert "vreportf: avoid intermediate buffer"Jeff King
This reverts commit f4c3edc0b156362a92bf9de4f0ec794e90a757fc. The purpose of that commit was to let us write errors of arbitrary length to stderr by skipping the intermediate buffer and sending our varargs straight to fprintf. That works, but it comes with a downside: we do not get access to the varargs before they are sent to stderr. On balance, it's not a good tradeoff. Error messages larger than our 4K buffer are quite uncommon, and we've lost the ability to make any modifications to the output (e.g., to remove non-printable characters). The only way to have both would be one of: 1. Write into a dynamic buffer. But this is a bad idea for a low-level function that may be called when malloc() has failed. 2. Do our own printf-format varargs parsing. This is too complex to be worth the trouble. Let's just revert that change and go back to a fixed buffer. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-19Merge branch 'cc/apply-am'Junio C Hamano
"git am" has been taught to make an internal call to "git apply"'s innards without spawning the latter as a separate process. * cc/apply-am: (41 commits) builtin/am: use apply API in run_apply() apply: learn to use a different index file apply: pass apply state to build_fake_ancestor() apply: refactor `git apply` option parsing apply: change error_routine when silent usage: add get_error_routine() and get_warn_routine() usage: add set_warn_routine() apply: don't print on stdout in verbosity_silent mode apply: make it possible to silently apply apply: use error_errno() where possible apply: make some parsing functions static again apply: move libified code from builtin/apply.c to apply.{c,h} apply: rename and move opt constants to apply.h builtin/apply: rename option parsing functions builtin/apply: make create_one_file() return -1 on error builtin/apply: make try_create_file() return -1 on error builtin/apply: make write_out_results() return -1 on error builtin/apply: make write_out_one_result() return -1 on error builtin/apply: make create_file() return -1 on error builtin/apply: make add_index_file() return -1 on error ...
2016-09-07usage: add get_error_routine() and get_warn_routine()Christian Couder
Let's make it possible to get the current error_routine and warn_routine, so that we can store them before using set_error_routine() or set_warn_routine() to use new ones. This way we will be able put back the original routines, when we are done with using new ones. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07usage: add set_warn_routine()Christian Couder
There are already set_die_routine() and set_error_routine(), so let's add set_warn_routine() as this will be needed in a following commit. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-31error_errno: use constant return similar to error()Jeff King
Commit e208f9c (make error()'s constant return value more visible, 2012-12-15) introduced some macro trickery to make the constant return from error() more visible to callers, which in turn can help gcc produce better warnings (and possibly even better code). Later, fd1d672 (usage.c: add warning_errno() and error_errno(), 2016-05-08) introduced another variant, and subsequent commits converted some uses of error() to error_errno(), losing the magic from e208f9c for those sites. As a result, compiling vcs-svn/svndiff.c with "gcc -O3" produces -Wmaybe-uninitialized false positives (at least with gcc 6.2.0). Let's give error_errno() the same treatment, which silences these warnings. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09usage.c: add warning_errno() and error_errno()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Similar to die_errno(), these functions will append strerror() automatically. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09usage.c: move format processing out of die_errno()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
fmt_with_err() will be shared with the coming error_errno() and warning_errno(). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-11vreportf: avoid intermediate bufferJeff King
When we call "die(fmt, args...)", we end up in vreportf with two pieces of information: 1. The prefix "fatal: " 2. The original fmt and va_list of args. We format item (2) into a temporary buffer, and then fprintf the prefix and the temporary buffer, along with a newline. This has the unfortunate side effect of truncating any error messages that are longer than 4096 bytes. Instead, let's use separate calls for the prefix and newline, letting us hand the item (2) directly to vfprintf. This is essentially undoing d048a96 (print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot, 2007-11-09), which tried to have the whole output end up in a single `write` call. But we can address this instead by explicitly requesting line-buffering for the output handle, and by making sure that the buffer is empty before we start (so that outputting the prefix does not cause a flush due to hitting the buffer limit). We may still break the output into two writes if the content is larger than our buffer, but there's not much we can do there; depending on the stdio implementation, that might have happened even with a single fprintf call. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-11vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandlesJeff King
The vreportf function always goes to stderr, but run-command wants child errors to go to the parent's original stderr. To solve this, commit a5487dd duplicates the stderr fd and installs die and error handlers to direct the output appropriately (which later turned into the vwritef function). This has two downsides, though: - we make multiple calls to write(), which contradicts the "write at once" logic from d048a96 (print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot, 2007-11-09). - the custom handlers basically duplicate the normal handlers. They're only a few lines of code, but we should not have to repeat the magic "exit(128)", for example. We can solve the first by using fdopen() on the duplicated descriptor. We can't pass this to vreportf, but we could introduce a new vreportf_to to handle it. However, to fix the second problem, we instead introduce a new "set_error_handle" function, which lets the normal vreportf calls output to a handle besides stderr. Thus we can get rid of our custom handlers entirely, and just ask the regular handlers to output to our new descriptor. And as vwritef has no more callers, it can just go away. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-19Merge branch 'jk/a-thread-only-dies-once'Junio C Hamano
A regression fix for the logic to detect die() handler triggering itself recursively. * jk/a-thread-only-dies-once: run-command: use thread-aware die_is_recursing routine usage: allow pluggable die-recursion checks
2013-04-16usage: allow pluggable die-recursion checksJeff King
When any git code calls die or die_errno, we use a counter to detect recursion into the die functions from any of the helper functions. However, such a simple counter is not good enough for threaded programs, which may call die from a sub-thread, killing only the sub-thread (but incrementing the counter for everyone). Rather than try to deal with threads ourselves here, let's just allow callers to plug in their own recursion-detection function. This is similar to how we handle the die routine (the caller plugs in a die routine which may kill only the sub-thread). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-15make error()'s constant return value more visibleJeff King
When git is compiled with "gcc -Wuninitialized -O3", some inlined calls provide an additional opportunity for the compiler to do static analysis on variable initialization. For example, with two functions like this: int get_foo(int *foo) { if (something_that_might_fail() < 0) return error("unable to get foo"); *foo = 0; return 0; } void some_fun(void) { int foo; if (get_foo(&foo) < 0) return -1; printf("foo is %d\n", foo); } If get_foo() is not inlined, then when compiling some_fun, gcc sees only that a pointer to the local variable is passed, and must assume that it is an out parameter that is initialized after get_foo returns. However, when get_foo() is inlined, the compiler may look at all of the code together and see that some code paths in get_foo() do not initialize the variable. As a result, it prints a warning. But what the compiler can't see is that error() always returns -1, and therefore we know that either we return early from some_fun, or foo ends up initialized, and the code is safe. The warning is a false positive. If we can make the compiler aware that error() will always return -1, it can do a better job of analysis. The simplest method would be to inline the error() function. However, this doesn't work, because gcc will not inline a variadc function. We can work around this by defining a macro. This relies on two gcc extensions: 1. Variadic macros (these are present in C99, but we do not rely on that). 2. Gcc treats the "##" paste operator specially between a comma and __VA_ARGS__, which lets our variadic macro work even if no format parameters are passed to error(). Since we are using these extra features, we hide the macro behind an #ifdef. This is OK, though, because our goal was just to help gcc. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-16usage.c: detect recursion in die routines and bail out immediatelyBrandon Casey
It is theoretically possible for a die handler to get into a state of infinite recursion. For example, if a die handler called another function which itself called die(). Let's at least detect this situation, inform the user, and call exit. Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <bcasey@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-01error_routine: use parent's stderr if exec failsClemens Buchacher
The new process's error output may be redirected elsewhere, but if the exec fails, output should still go to the parent's stderr. This has already been done for the die_routine. Do the same for error_routine. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-22Fix sparse warningsStephen Boyd
Fix warnings from 'make check'. - These files don't include 'builtin.h' causing sparse to complain that cmd_* isn't declared: builtin/clone.c:364, builtin/fetch-pack.c:797, builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c:34, builtin/hash-object.c:78, builtin/merge-index.c:69, builtin/merge-recursive.c:22 builtin/merge-tree.c:341, builtin/mktag.c:156, builtin/notes.c:426 builtin/notes.c:822, builtin/pack-redundant.c:596, builtin/pack-refs.c:10, builtin/patch-id.c:60, builtin/patch-id.c:149, builtin/remote.c:1512, builtin/remote-ext.c:240, builtin/remote-fd.c:53, builtin/reset.c:236, builtin/send-pack.c:384, builtin/unpack-file.c:25, builtin/var.c:75 - These files have symbols which should be marked static since they're only file scope: submodule.c:12, diff.c:631, replace_object.c:92, submodule.c:13, submodule.c:14, trace.c:78, transport.c:195, transport-helper.c:79, unpack-trees.c:19, url.c:3, url.c:18, url.c:104, url.c:117, url.c:123, url.c:129, url.c:136, thread-utils.c:21, thread-utils.c:48 - These files redeclare symbols to be different types: builtin/index-pack.c:210, parse-options.c:564, parse-options.c:571, usage.c:49, usage.c:58, usage.c:63, usage.c:72 - These files use a literal integer 0 when they really should use a NULL pointer: daemon.c:663, fast-import.c:2942, imap-send.c:1072, notes-merge.c:362 While we're in the area, clean up some unused #includes in builtin files (mostly exec_cmd.h). Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-07Make report() from usage.c public as vreportf() and use it.Johannes Sixt
There exist already a number of static functions named 'report', therefore, the function name was changed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-23Fix truncated usage messagesBjörn Gustavsson
The usage messages for some commands (such as 'git diff-tree') are truncated because they don't fit in a fixed buffer of 1024 bytes. It would be tempting to eliminate the buffer and the problem once and for all by doing the output in three steps, but doing so could (according to commit d048a96e) increase the likelyhood of messing up the display. So we just increase the size of the buffer. Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-10Introduce usagef() that takes a printf-style formatJonathan Nieder
Some new callers would want to use printf-like formatting, when issuing their usage messages. An option is to change usage() itself also be like printf(), which would make it similar to die() and warn(). But usage() is typically fixed, as opposed to die() and warn() that gives diagnostics depending on the situation. Indeed, the majority of strings given by existing callsites to usage() are fixed strings. If we were to make usage() take printf-style format, they all need to be changed to have "%s" as their first argument. So instead, introduce usagef() so that limited number of callers can use it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-01add NORETURN_PTR for function pointersErik Faye-Lund
Some compilers (including at least MSVC and ARM RVDS) supports NORETURN on function declarations, but not on function pointers. This patch makes it possible to define NORETURN for these compilers, by splitting the NORETURN macro into two - one for function declarations and one for function pointers. Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2009-10-01increase portability of NORETURN declarationsErik Faye-Lund
Some compilers (including at least MSVC) support NORETURN on function declarations, but only before the function-name. This patch makes it possible to define NORETURN to something meaningful for those compilers. Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2009-06-27die_errno(): double % in strerror() output just in caseJunio C Hamano
[tr: handle border case where % is placed at end of buffer] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-27Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()Thomas Rast
There are many calls to die() that do, or should, report strerror(errno) to indicate how the syscall they guard failed. Introduce a small helper function for this case. Note: - POSIX says vsnprintf can modify errno in some unlikely cases, so we have to use errno early. - We take some care to pass the original format to die_routine(), in case someone wants to call die_errno() with custom format characters. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-24Increase the size of the die/warning buffer to avoid truncationShawn O. Pearce
Long messages like those from lockfile.c when a lock can't be obtained truncate with only 256 bytes in the message buffer. Bump it to 1024 to give more space for these longer cases. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-29usage.c: remove unused functionsNanako Shiraishi
This removes three functions that are not used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Acked-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-11-10print warning/error/fatal messages in one shotNicolas Pitre
Not doing so is likely to create a messed up display when sent over the sideband protocol. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-03-31Rename warn() to warning() to fix symbol conflicts on BSD and Mac OSTheodore Ts'o
This fixes a problem reported by Randal Schwartz: >I finally tracked down all the (albeit inconsequential) errors I was getting >on both OpenBSD and OSX. It's the warn() function in usage.c. There's >warn(3) in BSD-style distros. It'd take a "great rename" to change it, but if >someone with better C skills than I have could do that, my linker and I would >appreciate it. It was annoying to me, too, when I was doing some mergetool testing on Mac OS X, so here's a fix. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-22Introduce a global level warn() function.Shawn O. Pearce
Like the existing error() function the new warn() function can be used to describe a situation that probably should not be occuring, but which the user (and Git) can continue to work around without running into too many problems. An example situation is a bad commit SHA1 found in a reflog. Attempting to read this record out of the reflog isn't really an error as we have skipped over it in the past. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-24usage: minimum type fix.Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-24Customizable error handlersPetr Baudis
This patch makes the usage(), die() and error() handlers customizable. Nothing in the git code itself uses that but many other libgit users (like Git.pm) will. This is implemented using the mutator functions primarily because you cannot directly modifying global variables of libgit from a program that dlopen()ed it, apparently. But having functions for that is a better API anyway. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-05Clean up compatibility definitions.Junio C Hamano
This attempts to clean up the way various compatibility functions are defined and used. - A new header file, git-compat-util.h, is introduced. This looks at various NO_XXX and does necessary function name replacements, equivalent of -Dstrcasestr=gitstrcasestr in the Makefile. - Those function name replacements are removed from the Makefile. - Common features such as usage(), die(), xmalloc() are moved from cache.h to git-compat-util.h; cache.h includes git-compat-util.h itself. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-02[PATCH] Better error reporting for "git status"Linus Torvalds
Instead of "git status" ignoring (and hiding) potential errors from the "git-update-index" call, make it exit if it fails, and show the error. In order to do this, use the "-q" flag (to ignore not-up-to-date files) and add a new "--unmerged" flag that allows unmerged entries in the index without any errors. This also avoids marking the index "changed" if an entry isn't actually modified, and makes sure that we exit with an understandable error message if the index is corrupt or unreadable. "read_cache()" no longer returns an error for the caller to check. Finally, make die() and usage() exit with recognizable error codes, if we ever want to check the failure reason in scripts. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-05-22Include file cleanups..Linus Torvalds
Add <limits.h> to the include files handled by "cache.h", and remove extraneous #include directives from various .c files. The rule is that "cache.h" gets all the basic stuff, so that we'll have as few system dependencies as possible.
2005-04-18Split up read-cache.c into more logical clumps.Linus Torvalds
Do the usage and error reporting in "usage.c", and the sha1 file accesses in "sha1_file.c". Small, nice, easily separated parts. Good.