Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] maintenance: fix SEGFAULT when no repository

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 11/26/2020 3:41 PM, Rafael Silva wrote:
> The "git maintenance run" and "git maintenance start/stop" commands
> holds a file-based lock at the .git/maintenance.lock and
> .git/schedule.lock respectively. These locks are used to ensure only
> one maintenance process is executed at the time as both operations
> involves writing data into the git repository.
> 
> The path to the lock file is built using
> "the_repository->objects->odb->path" that results in SEGFAULT when we
> have no repository available as "the_repository->objects->odb" is
> set to NULL.
> 
> Let's teach maintenance command to use RUN_SETUP option that will
> provide the validation and fail when running outside of a repository.
> Hence fixing the SEGFAULT for all three operations and making the
> behaviour consistent across all subcommands.
> 
> Setting the RUN_SETUP also provides the same protection for all
> subcommands given that the "register" and "unregister" also requires to
> be executed inside a repository.
> 
> Furthermore let's remove the local validation implemented by the
> "register" and "unregister" as this will not be required anymore with
> the new option.

Thank you for this very clean patch!

Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>