Merge branch 'cc/maint-bisect-paths'

* cc/maint-bisect-paths:
bisect: error out when passing bad path parameters

diff --git a/bisect.c b/bisect.c
index 6dc27ee7a6090e56d5b0f2072a72553d3b3e3b87..b556b11610480afd80cddd86a81af9737254ee36 100644 (file)
--- a/bisect.c
+++ b/bisect.c
@@ -986,6 +986,12 @@ int bisect_next_all(const char *prefix)
                exit(1);
        }
 
+       if (!all) {
+               fprintf(stderr, "No testable commit found.\n"
+                       "Maybe you started with bad path parameters?\n");
+               exit(4);
+       }
+
        bisect_rev = revs.commits->item->object.sha1;
        memcpy(bisect_rev_hex, sha1_to_hex(bisect_rev), 41);
 

diff --git a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
index c51865fdbc0a6fd98cca4a4accd35b302e5fd739..3b042aacd63f77651fdaf3d10b65f4fc85669a75 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
+++ b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
@@ -567,6 +567,11 @@ test_expect_success 'skipping away from skipped commit' '
        test "$para3" = "$PARA_HASH3"
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'erroring out when using bad path parameters' '
+       test_must_fail git bisect start $PARA_HASH7 $HASH1 -- foobar 2> error.txt &&
+       grep "bad path parameters" error.txt
+'
+
 #
 #
 test_done