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authorNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2010-10-22 01:51:00 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-10-22 11:04:54 -0700
commit9c7c27eeab73b4c90cf36c6aa06ba6b8b9777629 (patch)
tree3a283a3e76f44e10b504597487ea213babba17ea
parentda53eec68873e76c68086e405f3f1329d47055b3 (diff)
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update-index -h: show usage even with corrupt index
When trying to fix up a corrupt repository, one might prefer that "update-index -h" print an accurate usage message and exit rather than reading the repository and complaining about the corruption. [jn: with rewritten log message and tests] Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--builtin/update-index.c3
-rwxr-xr-xt/t2107-update-index-basic.sh32
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/update-index.c b/builtin/update-index.c
index 3ab214d24..a41d6d74f 100644
--- a/builtin/update-index.c
+++ b/builtin/update-index.c
@@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
int lock_error = 0;
struct lock_file *lock_file;
+ if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
+ usage(update_index_usage);
+
git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
/* We can't free this memory, it becomes part of a linked list parsed atexit() */
diff --git a/t/t2107-update-index-basic.sh b/t/t2107-update-index-basic.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..33f8be0cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t2107-update-index-basic.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='basic update-index tests
+
+Tests for command-line parsing and basic operation.
+'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'update-index --nonsense fails' '
+ test_must_fail git update-index --nonsense 2>msg &&
+ cat msg &&
+ test -s msg
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'update-index --nonsense dumps usage' '
+ test_expect_code 129 git update-index --nonsense 2>err &&
+ grep "[Uu]sage: git update-index" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'update-index -h with corrupt index' '
+ mkdir broken &&
+ (
+ cd broken &&
+ git init &&
+ >.git/index &&
+ test_expect_code 129 git update-index -h >usage 2>&1
+ ) &&
+ grep "[Uu]sage: git update-index" broken/usage
+'
+
+test_done