object-file.c: stop dying in parse_loose_header()

Make parse_loose_header() return error codes and data instead of
invoking die() by itself.

For now we'll move the relevant die() call to loose_object_info() and
read_loose_object() to keep this change smaller. In a subsequent
commit we'll make read_loose_object() return an error code instead of
dying. We should also address the "allow_unknown" case (should be
moved to builtin/cat-file.c), but for now I'll be leaving it.

For making parse_loose_header() not die() change its prototype to
accept a "struct object_info *" instead of the "unsigned long *sizep"
it accepted before. Its callers can now check the populated populated
"oi->typep".

Because of this we don't need to pass in the "unsigned int flags"
which we used for OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE, we can instead do
that check in loose_object_info().

This also refactors some confusing control flow around the "status"
variable. In some cases we set it to the return value of "error()",
i.e. -1, and later checked if "status < 0" was true.

Since 93cff9a978e (sha1_loose_object_info: return error for corrupted
objects, 2017-04-01) the return value of loose_object_info() (then
named sha1_loose_object_info()) had been a "status" variable that be
any negative value, as we were expecting to return the "enum
object_type".

The only negative type happens to be OBJ_BAD, but the code still
assumed that more might be added. This was then used later in
e.g. c84a1f3ed4d (sha1_file: refactor read_object, 2017-06-21). Now
that parse_loose_header() will return 0 on success instead of the
type (which it'll stick into the "struct object_info") we don't need
to conflate these two cases in its callers.

Since parse_loose_header() doesn't need to return an arbitrary
"status" we only need to treat its "ret < 0" specially, but can
idiomatically overwrite it with our own error() return. This along
with having made unpack_loose_header() return an "enum
unpack_loose_header_result" in an earlier commit means that we can
move the previously nested if/else cases mostly into the "ULHR_OK"
branch of the "switch" statement.

We should be less silent if we reach that "status = -1" branch, which
happens if we've got trailing garbage in loose objects, see
f6371f92104 (sha1_file: add read_loose_object() function, 2017-01-13)
for a better way to handle it. For now let's punt on it, a subsequent
commit will address that edge case.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index e7d0cc3d3b..1181304f3f 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1332,9 +1332,16 @@ enum unpack_loose_header_result unpack_loose_header(git_zstream *stream,
 						    unsigned long bufsiz,
 						    struct strbuf *hdrbuf);
 
+/**
+ * parse_loose_header() parses the starting "<type> <len>\0" of an
+ * object. If it doesn't follow that format -1 is returned. To check
+ * the validity of the <type> populate the "typep" in the "struct
+ * object_info". It will be OBJ_BAD if the object type is unknown. The
+ * parsed <len> can be retrieved via "oi->sizep", and from there
+ * passed to unpack_loose_rest().
+ */
 struct object_info;
-int parse_loose_header(const char *hdr, struct object_info *oi,
-		       unsigned int flags);
+int parse_loose_header(const char *hdr, struct object_info *oi);
 
 int check_object_signature(struct repository *r, const struct object_id *oid,
 			   void *buf, unsigned long size, const char *type);