git-check-attr: Extract a function output_attr()

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index e925ca1f8973a05a66b5c09b45e3451f65e3a1e7..cbbe966f685b276cac702bb0fd9a44bfbf5f0e79 100644 (file)
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -305,6 +305,10 @@ static void add_cmd_list(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *old)
 #define SIMILARITY_FLOOR 7
 #define SIMILAR_ENOUGH(x) ((x) < SIMILARITY_FLOOR)
 
+static const char bad_interpreter_advice[] =
+       N_("'%s' appears to be a git command, but we were not\n"
+       "able to execute it. Maybe git-%s is broken?");
+
 const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 {
        int i, n, best_similarity = 0;
@@ -329,6 +333,14 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
                int cmp = 0; /* avoid compiler stupidity */
                const char *candidate = main_cmds.names[i]->name;
 
+               /*
+                * An exact match means we have the command, but
+                * for some reason exec'ing it gave us ENOENT; probably
+                * it's a bad interpreter in the #! line.
+                */
+               if (!strcmp(candidate, cmd))
+                       die(_(bad_interpreter_advice), cmd, cmd);
+
                /* Does the candidate appear in common_cmds list? */
                while (n < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds) &&
                       (cmp = strcmp(common_cmds[n].name, candidate)) < 0)