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| -rwxr-xr-x | contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl index 717387275c..c1a967b3d1 100755 --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ use constant NULL_SHA1 => "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"; # Used on Git's side to reflect empty edit messages on the wiki use constant EMPTY_MESSAGE => '*Empty MediaWiki Message*'; +if (@ARGV != 2) { + exit_error_usage(); +} + my $remotename = $ARGV[0]; my $url = $ARGV[1]; @@ -157,6 +161,17 @@ while (<STDIN>) { ########################## Functions ############################## +## error handling +sub exit_error_usage { + die "ERROR: git-remote-mediawiki module was not called with a correct number of\n" . + "parameters\n" . + "You may obtain this error because you attempted to run the git-remote-mediawiki\n" . + "module directly.\n" . + "This module can be used the following way:\n" . + "\tgit clone mediawiki://<address of a mediawiki>\n" . + "Then, use git commit, push and pull as with every normal git repository.\n"; +} + # MediaWiki API instance, created lazily. my $mediawiki; |