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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git fsck exit code?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:18:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409343480.19256.2.camel@leckie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqha0v5cgn.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 12:21 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 06:10:12PM -0400, David Turner wrote:
> >
> >> It looks like git fsck exits with 0 status even if there are some
> >> errors. The only case where there's a non-zero exit code is if
> >> verify_pack reports errors -- but not e.g. fsck_object_dir.
> >
> > It will also bail non-zero with _certain_ tree errors that cause git to
> > die() rather than fscking more completely.
> 
> Even if git does not die, whenever it says broken link, missing
> object, or object corrupt, we set errors_found and that variable
> affects the exit status of fsck.  What does "some errors" exactly
> mean in the original report?  Dangling objects are *not* errors and
> should not cause fsck to report an error with its exit status.

error in tree 9f50addba2b4e9e928d9c6a7056bdf71b36fba90: contains
duplicate file entries

(at least -- there might be more, but that's the one that bit me)

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-29 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27 22:10 git fsck exit code? David Turner
2014-08-29 18:53 ` Jeff King
2014-08-29 19:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 20:18     ` David Turner [this message]
2014-08-29 20:31       ` Jeff King
2014-08-29 20:47         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-09 22:03         ` [PATCH] fsck: exit with non-zero status upon error from fsck_obj() Junio C Hamano
2014-09-09 22:07           ` Jeff King
2014-09-12  3:38             ` [PATCH] fsck: return non-zero status on missing ref tips Jeff King
2014-09-12  4:29               ` Jeff King
2014-09-12  4:38                 ` Jeff King
2014-09-12  4:58                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-12  5:12                   ` Jeff King
2014-09-15 14:42                   ` Michael Haggerty
2014-09-15 14:57                 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-09-09 22:21           ` [PATCH] fsck: exit with non-zero status upon error from fsck_obj() Junio C Hamano
2014-09-09 22:29             ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-08-31 18:54       ` git fsck exit code? Øyvind A. Holm
2014-09-01 11:54         ` Øyvind A. Holm
2014-09-01 18:17         ` David Turner
2014-09-09 22:09           ` Jeff King

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