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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-09-11 12:21:29 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-09-11 12:21:29 +0900
commitab46e6fc7265de3e354d7eaaa7ed7c1e2426171f (patch)
tree1c91cba463bc5f1ecb1471d5a858572604459ce3
parentd3ba566342a4fd81b24d926efc35506d58e10a19 (diff)
downloadgit-cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities.tar.gz
subprocess: loudly die when subprocess asks for an unsupported capabilitycc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities
The handshake_capabilities() function first advertises the set of capabilities it supports, so that the other side can pick and choose which ones to use and ask us to enable in its response. Then we read the response that tells us what choice the other side made. If we saw something that we never advertised, that indicates one of two things. The other side, i.e. the "upgraded" filter, is not paying attention of the capabilities advertisement, and asking something its correct operation relies on, but we are not capable of giving that unknown feature and operate without it, so after that point the exchange of data is a garbage-in-garbage-out. Or the other side wanted to ask for one of the capabilities we advertised, but the code has typo and their wish to enable a capability that its correct operation relies on is not understood on this end. The result is the same garbage-in-garbage-out. Instead of sweeping such a potential bug under the rug, die loudly when we see a request for an unsupported capability in order to force sloppily-written filter scripts to get corrected. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--sub-process.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sub-process.c b/sub-process.c
index fcc4832c14..ec9a51b7b1 100644
--- a/sub-process.c
+++ b/sub-process.c
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ static int handshake_capabilities(struct child_process *process,
if (supported_capabilities)
*supported_capabilities |= capabilities[i].flag;
} else {
- warning("subprocess '%s' requested unsupported capability '%s'",
- process->argv[0], p);
+ die("subprocess '%s' requested unsupported capability '%s'",
+ process->argv[0], p);
}
}