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| -rw-r--r-- | help.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -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) |