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1 files changed, 52 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 731851a4a8..3a1b2fd455 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
static int inside_git_dir = -1;
static int inside_work_tree = -1;
-char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
+static char *prefix_path_gently(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
{
const char *orig = path;
char *sanitized;
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
if (strncmp(sanitized, work_tree, len) ||
(len > root_len && sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
error_out:
- die("'%s' is outside repository", orig);
+ free(sanitized);
+ return NULL;
}
if (sanitized[len] == '/')
len++;
@@ -40,6 +41,25 @@ char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
return sanitized;
}
+char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
+{
+ char *r = prefix_path_gently(prefix, len, path);
+ if (!r)
+ die("'%s' is outside repository", path);
+ return r;
+}
+
+int path_inside_repo(const char *prefix, const char *path)
+{
+ int len = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
+ char *r = prefix_path_gently(prefix, len, path);
+ if (r) {
+ free(r);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
{
const char *name;
@@ -53,24 +73,27 @@ int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
die_errno("failed to stat '%s'", arg);
}
-static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
+static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix,
+ const char *arg,
+ int diagnose_misspelt_rev)
{
- unsigned char sha1[20];
- unsigned mode;
-
+ if (!diagnose_misspelt_rev)
+ die("%s: no such path in the working tree.\n"
+ "Use 'git <command> -- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.",
+ arg);
/*
* Saying "'(icase)foo' does not exist in the index" when the
* user gave us ":(icase)foo" is just stupid. A magic pathspec
* begins with a colon and is followed by a non-alnum; do not
- * let get_sha1_with_mode_1(only_to_die=1) to even trigger.
+ * let maybe_die_on_misspelt_object_name() even trigger.
*/
if (!(arg[0] == ':' && !isalnum(arg[1])))
- /* try a detailed diagnostic ... */
- get_sha1_with_mode_1(arg, sha1, &mode, 1, prefix);
+ maybe_die_on_misspelt_object_name(arg, prefix);
/* ... or fall back the most general message. */
die("ambiguous argument '%s': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\n"
- "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions", arg);
+ "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:\n"
+ "'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'", arg);
}
@@ -80,14 +103,29 @@ static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
* as true, because even if such a filename were to exist, we want
* it to be preceded by the "--" marker (or we want the user to
* use a format like "./-filename")
+ *
+ * The "diagnose_misspelt_rev" is used to provide a user-friendly
+ * diagnosis when dying upon finding that "name" is not a pathname.
+ * If set to 1, the diagnosis will try to diagnose "name" as an
+ * invalid object name (e.g. HEAD:foo). If set to 0, the diagnosis
+ * will only complain about an inexisting file.
+ *
+ * This function is typically called to check that a "file or rev"
+ * argument is unambiguous. In this case, the caller will want
+ * diagnose_misspelt_rev == 1 when verifying the first non-rev
+ * argument (which could have been a revision), and
+ * diagnose_misspelt_rev == 0 for the next ones (because we already
+ * saw a filename, there's not ambiguity anymore).
*/
-void verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
+void verify_filename(const char *prefix,
+ const char *arg,
+ int diagnose_misspelt_rev)
{
if (*arg == '-')
die("bad flag '%s' used after filename", arg);
if (check_filename(prefix, arg))
return;
- die_verify_filename(prefix, arg);
+ die_verify_filename(prefix, arg, diagnose_misspelt_rev);
}
/*
@@ -104,7 +142,8 @@ void verify_non_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
if (!check_filename(prefix, arg))
return;
die("ambiguous argument '%s': both revision and filename\n"
- "Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions", arg);
+ "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:\n"
+ "'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'", arg);
}
/*