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authorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>2019-07-18 02:30:33 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-07-19 08:12:44 -0700
commitb09364c47a015dee7735fd2c038d7d710417c2f2 (patch)
tree87a34fe23b44f7645f3274bb73c54a5f049c394b /builtin
parentGit 2.22 (diff)
downloadtgif-b09364c47a015dee7735fd2c038d7d710417c2f2.tar.xz
clean: show an error message when the path is too long
When `lstat()` failed, `git clean` would abort without an error message, leaving the user quite puzzled. In particular on Windows, where the default maximum path length is quite small (yet there are ways to circumvent that limit in many cases), it is very important that users be given an indication why their command failed because of too long paths when it did. This test case makes sure that a warning is issued that would have helped the user who reported this issue: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/521 Note that we temporarily set `core.longpaths = false` in the regression test; this ensures forward-compatibility with the `core.longpaths` feature that has not yet been upstreamed from Git for Windows. Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/clean.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
index aaba4af3c2..d5579da716 100644
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static const char *msg_would_remove = N_("Would remove %s\n");
static const char *msg_skip_git_dir = N_("Skipping repository %s\n");
static const char *msg_would_skip_git_dir = N_("Would skip repository %s\n");
static const char *msg_warn_remove_failed = N_("failed to remove %s");
+static const char *msg_warn_lstat_failed = N_("could not lstat %s\n");
enum color_clean {
CLEAN_COLOR_RESET = 0,
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ static int remove_dirs(struct strbuf *path, const char *prefix, int force_flag,
strbuf_setlen(path, len);
strbuf_addstr(path, e->d_name);
if (lstat(path->buf, &st))
- ; /* fall thru */
+ warning_errno(_(msg_warn_lstat_failed), path->buf);
else if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
if (remove_dirs(path, prefix, force_flag, dry_run, quiet, &gone))
ret = 1;