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From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sequencer: rectify empty hint in call of require_clean_work_tree()
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:33:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZEr4VKMPSYZZxgIM@ugly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmt2thvuu.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 02:13:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>I think the right fix would be more like the attached patch, which
>will fix any other callsites that pass "" at the same time.  Of
>course, you can fix the callers on top, but that is secondary.
>
there is only that one incorrect (in-tree) call.
i don't think that making the behavior more compliant with the shell 
implementation is particularly elegant or even useful.
if i wanted to be super-pedantic about it, i'd assert that non-null 
strings are non-empty. but that would only help if all error paths 
actually have test coverage.

>--- i/wt-status.c
>+++ w/wt-status.c
>@@ -2650,7 +2650,7 @@ int require_clean_work_tree(struct repository *r,
> 
>-		if (hint)
>+		if (hint && *hint)
> 			error("%s", hint);

-- ossi


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-27 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-23 16:22 [PATCH] sequencer: rectify empty hint in call of require_clean_work_tree() Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-27  7:58 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-04-27 21:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 22:33     ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2023-05-02 18:57       ` Felipe Contreras
2023-05-03  7:15         ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-07 17:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-07 20:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-09 17:15     ` [PATCH v3] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-09 21:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-10 11:24         ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-10 16:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-24 15:00           ` [PATCH v4] " Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-08-24 15:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-09  1:24   ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano

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