[PATCH] Better error reporting for "git status"

Instead of "git status" ignoring (and hiding) potential errors from the
"git-update-index" call, make it exit if it fails, and show the error.

In order to do this, use the "-q" flag (to ignore not-up-to-date files)
and add a new "--unmerged" flag that allows unmerged entries in the index
without any errors.

This also avoids marking the index "changed" if an entry isn't actually
modified, and makes sure that we exit with an understandable error message
if the index is corrupt or unreadable. "read_cache()" no longer returns an
error for the caller to check.

Finally, make die() and usage() exit with recognizable error codes, if we
ever want to check the failure reason in scripts.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 0e345bdb2..d2aebdd6b 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -464,11 +464,15 @@ int read_cache(void)
 
 	errno = EBUSY;
 	if (active_cache)
-		return error("more than one cachefile");
+		return active_nr;
+
 	errno = ENOENT;
 	fd = open(get_index_file(), O_RDONLY);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		return (errno == ENOENT) ? 0 : error("open failed");
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		if (errno == ENOENT)
+			return 0;
+		die("index file open failed (%s)", strerror(errno));
+	}
 
 	size = 0; // avoid gcc warning
 	map = MAP_FAILED;
@@ -480,7 +484,7 @@ int read_cache(void)
 	}
 	close(fd);
 	if (map == MAP_FAILED)
-		return error("mmap failed");
+		die("index file mmap failed (%s)", strerror(errno));
 
 	hdr = map;
 	if (verify_hdr(hdr, size) < 0)
@@ -501,7 +505,7 @@ int read_cache(void)
 unmap:
 	munmap(map, size);
 	errno = EINVAL;
-	return error("verify header failed");
+	die("index file corrupt");
 }
 
 #define WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE 8192