Merge branch 'gb/split-cmdline-errmsg' into gb/shell-ext

* gb/split-cmdline-errmsg:
split_cmdline: Allow caller to access error string

diff --git a/alias.c b/alias.c
index 372b7d809301f9e3e936459e405cd6f2627bd4a9..eb9f08b912b2089d434926fc6083ac5ab90c73bc 100644 (file)
--- a/alias.c
+++ b/alias.c
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ char *alias_lookup(const char *alias)
        return alias_val;
 }
 
+#define SPLIT_CMDLINE_BAD_ENDING 1
+#define SPLIT_CMDLINE_UNCLOSED_QUOTE 2
+static const char *split_cmdline_errors[] = {
+       "cmdline ends with \\",
+       "unclosed quote"
+};
+
 int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
 {
        int src, dst, count = 0, size = 16;
@@ -53,7 +60,7 @@ int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
                                if (!c) {
                                        free(*argv);
                                        *argv = NULL;
-                                       return error("cmdline ends with \\");
+                                       return -SPLIT_CMDLINE_BAD_ENDING;
                                }
                        }
                        cmdline[dst++] = c;
@@ -66,7 +73,7 @@ int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
        if (quoted) {
                free(*argv);
                *argv = NULL;
-               return error("unclosed quote");
+               return -SPLIT_CMDLINE_UNCLOSED_QUOTE;
        }
 
        ALLOC_GROW(*argv, count+1, size);
@@ -75,3 +82,6 @@ int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
        return count;
 }
 
+const char *split_cmdline_strerror(int split_cmdline_errno) {
+       return split_cmdline_errors[-split_cmdline_errno-1];
+}

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 37ce4f589f6582abf0d1ef5bd263f590a16853d5..b48826372f94e8dc48a37c3ff5ea4c727788f92e 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -486,7 +486,8 @@ static int git_merge_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
                buf = xstrdup(v);
                argc = split_cmdline(buf, &argv);
                if (argc < 0)
-                       die("Bad branch.%s.mergeoptions string", branch);
+                       die("Bad branch.%s.mergeoptions string: %s", branch,
+                           split_cmdline_strerror(argc));
                argv = xrealloc(argv, sizeof(*argv) * (argc + 2));
                memmove(argv + 1, argv, sizeof(*argv) * (argc + 1));
                argc++;

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index c9fa3df7f5b343ecea980ceb423e7c23d2eb22b2..7466ad04fac5efdfb179177f55e6be3f5cacb466 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1096,6 +1096,8 @@ void overlay_tree_on_cache(const char *tree_name, const char *prefix);
 
 char *alias_lookup(const char *alias);
 int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv);
+/* Takes a negative value returned by split_cmdline */
+const char *split_cmdline_strerror(int cmdline_errno);
 
 /* builtin/merge.c */
 int checkout_fast_forward(const unsigned char *from, const unsigned char *to);

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 17538117a5ccfd48129a873697d8674e86f512f5..da56f31a673121f2d45806dd089e633d0aa6a462 100644 (file)
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
                }
                count = split_cmdline(alias_string, &new_argv);
                if (count < 0)
-                       die("Bad alias.%s string", alias_command);
+                       die("Bad alias.%s string: %s", alias_command,
+                           split_cmdline_strerror(count));
                option_count = handle_options(&new_argv, &count, &envchanged);
                if (envchanged)
                        die("alias '%s' changes environment variables\n"