* js/run-command-updates:
api-run-command.txt: describe error behavior of run_command functions
run-command.c: squelch a "use before assignment" warning
receive-pack: remove unnecessary run_status report
run_command: report failure to execute the program, but optionally don't
run_command: encode deadly signal number in the return value
run_command: report system call errors instead of returning error codes
run_command: return exit code as positive value
MinGW: simplify waitpid() emulation macros
* tr/die_errno:
Use die_errno() instead of die() when checking syscalls
Convert existing die(..., strerror(errno)) to die_errno()
die_errno(): double % in strerror() output just in case
Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()
As a general guideline, functions in git's code return zero to indicate
success and negative values to indicate failure. The run_command family of
functions followed this guideline. But there are actually two different
kinds of failure:
- failures of system calls;
- non-zero exit code of the program that was run.
Usually, a non-zero exit code of the program is a failure and means a
failure to the caller. Except that sometimes it does not. For example, the
exit code of merge programs (e.g. external merge drivers) conveys
information about how the merge failed, and not all exit calls are
actually failures.
Furthermore, the return value of run_command is sometimes used as exit
code by the caller.
This change arranges that the exit code of the program is returned as a
positive value, which can now be regarded as the "result" of the function.
System call failures continue to be reported as negative values.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Put filenames into the conflict markers only when they are different.
Otherwise they are redundant information clutter.
Print the filename explicitely when warning about a binary conflict.
Signed-off-by: Martin Renold <martinxyz@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lots of die() calls did not actually report the kind of error, which
can leave the user confused as to the real problem. Use die_errno()
where we check a system/library call that sets errno on failure, or
one of the following that wrap such calls:
Function Passes on error from
-------- --------------------
odb_pack_keep open
read_ancestry fopen
read_in_full xread
strbuf_read xread
strbuf_read_file open or strbuf_read_file
strbuf_readlink readlink
write_in_full xwrite
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/maint-1.6.0-add-config-fix:
add: allow configurations to be overriden by command line
use xstrdup, not strdup in ll-merge.c
Conflicts:
builtin-add.c
Otherwise, a fluky allocation failure would cause merge
configuration settings to be silently ignored.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This helps to notice when something's going wrong, especially on
systems which lock open files.
I used the following criteria when selecting the code for replacement:
- it was already printing a warning for the unlink failures
- it is in a function which already printing something or is
called from such a function
- it is in a static function, returning void and the function is only
called from a builtin main function (cmd_)
- it is in a function which handles emergency exit (signal handlers)
- it is in a function which is obvously cleaning up the lockfiles
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the low-level ll_xdl_merge() routine to honor
merge.conflictstyle configuration variable, so that merge-recursive
strategy can show the conflicts in the style of user's choice.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data
parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify
global variables.
With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped
that this will help the libification effort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves low-level merge functions out of merge-recursive.c and
places them in a new separate file, ll-merge.c
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
