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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-12-07 10:56:26 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-12-07 11:31:59 -0800
commit3f061bf514667497a948804828064b9b9c3b249b (patch)
tree8bc5bf9e87211fcc64dbd8df592b5b23c04484c4 /lockfile.c
parentb3e83cc752e905e063d0930c682a06de5034074f (diff)
downloadgit-3f061bf514667497a948804828064b9b9c3b249b.tar.gz
lockfile: LOCK_REPORT_ON_ERROR
The "libify sequencer" topic stopped passing the die_on_error option to hold_locked_index(), and this lost an error message from "git merge --ff-only $commit" when there are competing updates in progress. The command still exits with a non-zero status, but that is not of much help for an interactive user. The last thing the command says is "Updating $from..$to". We used to follow it with a big error message that makes it clear that "merge --ff-only" did not succeed. What is sad is that we should have noticed this regression while reviewing the change. It was clear that the update to the checkout_fast_forward() function made a failing hold_locked_index() silent, but the only caller of the checkout_fast_forward() function had this comment: if (checkout_fast_forward(from, to, 1)) - exit(128); /* the callee should have complained already */ + return -1; /* the callee should have complained already */ which clearly contradicted the assumption X-<. Add a new option LOCK_REPORT_ON_ERROR that can be passed instead of LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR to the hold_lock*() family of functions and teach checkout_fast_forward() to use it to fix this regression. After going thourgh all calls to hold_lock*() family of functions that used to pass LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR but were modified to pass 0 in the "libify sequencer" topic "git show --first-parent 2a4062a4a8", it appears that this is the only one that has become silent. Many others used to give detailed report that talked about "there may be competing Git process running" but with the series merged they now only give a single liner "Unable to lock ...", some of which may have to be tweaked further, but at least they say something, unlike the one this patch fixes. Reported-by: Robbie Iannucci <iannucci@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lockfile.c')
-rw-r--r--lockfile.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lockfile.c b/lockfile.c
index 9268cdf325..aa69210d8b 100644
--- a/lockfile.c
+++ b/lockfile.c
@@ -174,8 +174,16 @@ int hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(struct lock_file *lk, const char *path,
int flags, long timeout_ms)
{
int fd = lock_file_timeout(lk, path, flags, timeout_ms);
- if (fd < 0 && (flags & LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR))
- unable_to_lock_die(path, errno);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ if (flags & LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR)
+ unable_to_lock_die(path, errno);
+ if (flags & LOCK_REPORT_ON_ERROR) {
+ struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+ unable_to_lock_message(path, errno, &buf);
+ error("%s", buf.buf);
+ strbuf_release(&buf);
+ }
+ }
return fd;
}