grep: avoid resolving revision names in --no-index case

We disallow the use of revisions with --no-index, but we
don't actually check and complain until well after we've
parsed the revisions.

This is the cause of a few problems:

 1. We shouldn't be calling get_sha1() at all when we aren't
    in a repository, as it might access the ref or object
    databases. For now, this should generally just return
    failure, but eventually it will become a BUG().

 2. When there's a "--" disambiguator and you're outside a
    repository, we'll complain early with "unable to resolve
    revision". But we can give a much more specific error.

 3. When there isn't a "--" disambiguator, we still do the
    normal rev/path checks. This is silly, as we know we
    cannot have any revs with --no-index. Everything we see
    must be a path.

    Outside of a repository this doesn't matter (since we
    know it won't resolve), but inside one, we may complain
    unnecessarily if a filename happens to also match a
    refname.

This patch skips the get_sha1() call entirely in the
no-index case, and behaves as if it failed (with the
exception of giving a better error message).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index e83b33bdaa..c4c6325941 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -1176,6 +1176,12 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			break;
 		}
 
+		if (!use_index) {
+			if (seen_dashdash)
+				die(_("--no-index cannot be used with revs"));
+			break;
+		}
+
 		if (get_sha1_with_context(arg, 0, sha1, &oc)) {
 			if (seen_dashdash)
 				die(_("unable to resolve revision: %s"), arg);
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index a6011f9b1d..c051c7ee80 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -1030,6 +1030,19 @@ test_expect_success 'grep --no-index pattern -- path' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'grep --no-index complains of revs' '
+	test_must_fail git grep --no-index o master -- 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "no-index cannot be used with revs" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'grep --no-index prefers paths to revs' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f master" &&
+	echo content >master &&
+	echo master:content >expect &&
+	git grep --no-index o master >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 cat >expected <<EOF
 hello.c:int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 hello.c:	printf("Hello world.\n");