git-describe tells you the version number you're at, or errors out, e.g.
when you run it outside of a repository, which may happen when downloading
a tar ball instead of using git to obtain the source code.
To keep this property of only erroring out, when not in a repository,
severe (submodule) errors must be downgraded to reporting them gently
instead of having git-describe error out completely.
To achieve that a flag '--broken' is introduced, which is in the same
vein as '--dirty' but uses an actual child process to check for dirtiness.
When that child dies unexpectedly, we'll append '-broken' instead of
'-dirty'.
This patch helps to fix the root cause in [1], which tries to work around
this situation.
[1] ("Work around git describe bug for build.")
https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/99851/
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
---
> I probably would
>
> - introduce a new "git describe --possibly-broken" option;
>
> - instead of running "diff-index" internally to decide the "-dirty"
> state, spawn "diff-index" as a separate process;
>
> - observe the exit status from "diff-index" and add "-dirty" suffix
This is what this patch does. It doesn't need any preceeding refactor
patches, but comes on its own; developed on origin/master.
Thanks,
Stefan
Documentation/git-describe.txt | 7 +++++
builtin/describe.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
t/t6120-describe.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 8755f3af7b..b71fa7a4ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ OPTIONS
It means describe HEAD and appends <mark> (`-dirty` by
default) if the working tree is dirty.
+--broken[=<mark>]::
+ Describe the working tree.
+ It means describe HEAD and appends <mark> (`-broken` by
+ default) if the working tree cannot be examined for dirtiness.
+ This implies `--dirty`, which is the fallback behavior when
+ the working tree examination works.
+
--all::
Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
found in `refs/` namespace. This option enables matching
diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index 76c18059bf..37a83520c9 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include "diff.h"
#include "hashmap.h"
#include "argv-array.h"
+#include "run-command.h"
#define SEEN (1u << 0)
#define MAX_TAGS (FLAG_BITS - 1)
@@ -31,12 +32,7 @@ static int have_util;
static struct string_list patterns = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
static struct string_list exclude_patterns = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
static int always;
-static const char *dirty;
-
-/* diff-index command arguments to check if working tree is dirty. */
-static const char *diff_index_args[] = {
- "diff-index", "--quiet", "HEAD", "--", NULL
-};
+static const char *append, *dirty, *broken;
struct commit_name {
struct hashmap_entry entry;
@@ -292,8 +288,8 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
display_name(n);
if (longformat)
show_suffix(0, n->tag ? &n->tag->tagged->oid : &oid);
- if (dirty)
- printf("%s", dirty);
+ if (append)
+ printf("%s", append);
printf("\n");
return;
}
@@ -369,8 +365,8 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
struct object_id *oid = &cmit->object.oid;
if (always) {
printf("%s", find_unique_abbrev(oid->hash, abbrev));
- if (dirty)
- printf("%s", dirty);
+ if (append)
+ printf("%s", append);
printf("\n");
return;
}
@@ -413,8 +409,8 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
display_name(all_matches[0].name);
if (abbrev)
show_suffix(all_matches[0].depth, &cmit->object.oid);
- if (dirty)
- printf("%s", dirty);
+ if (append)
+ printf("%s", append);
printf("\n");
if (!last_one)
@@ -445,6 +441,9 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
{OPTION_STRING, 0, "dirty", &dirty, N_("mark"),
N_("append <mark> on dirty working tree (default:
\"-dirty\")"),
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t) "-dirty"},
+ {OPTION_STRING, 0, "broken", &broken, N_("mark"),
+ N_("append <mark> on broken working tree (default:
\"-broken\")"),
+ PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t) "-broken"},
OPT_END(),
};
@@ -493,10 +492,35 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
die(_("No names found, cannot describe anything."));
if (argc == 0) {
- if (dirty) {
+ if (broken) {
+ struct child_process cp = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+ argv_array_pushl(&cp.args, "diff-index", "--quiet",
"HEAD", "--", NULL);
+ cp.git_cmd = 1;
+ cp.no_stdin = 1;
+ cp.no_stdout = 1;
+
+ if (!dirty)
+ dirty = "-dirty";
+
+ switch (run_command(&cp)) {
+ case 0:
+ append = NULL;
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ /* keep dirty as is */
+ append = dirty;
+ break;
+ default:
+ /* diff-index aborted abnormally */
+ append = broken;
+ }
+ } else if (dirty) {
+ struct argv_array args = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
static struct lock_file index_lock;
int fd;
+ argv_array_pushl(&args, "diff-index", "--quiet",
"HEAD", "--", NULL);
+
read_cache_preload(NULL);
refresh_index(&the_index,
REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED,
NULL, NULL, NULL);
@@ -504,13 +528,16 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
if (0 <= fd)
update_index_if_able(&the_index, &index_lock);
- if (!cmd_diff_index(ARRAY_SIZE(diff_index_args) - 1,
- diff_index_args, prefix))
- dirty = NULL;
+ if (cmd_diff_index(args.argc, args.argv, prefix))
+ append = dirty;
+ else
+ append = NULL;
}
describe("HEAD", 1);
} else if (dirty) {
die(_("--dirty is incompatible with commit-ishes"));
+ } else if (broken) {
+ die(_("--broken is incompatible with commit-ishes"));
} else {
while (argc-- > 0)
describe(*argv++, argc == 0);
diff --git a/t/t6120-describe.sh b/t/t6120-describe.sh
index 167491fd5b..16952e44fc 100755
--- a/t/t6120-describe.sh
+++ b/t/t6120-describe.sh
@@ -233,4 +233,24 @@ test_expect_success 'describe --contains and --no-match' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+test_expect_success 'setup and absorb a submodule' '
+ test_create_repo sub1 &&
+ test_commit -C sub1 initial &&
+ git submodule add ./sub1 &&
+ git submodule absorbgitdirs &&
+ git commit -a -m "add submodule" &&
+ git describe --dirty >expect &&
+ git describe --broken >out &&
+ test_cmp expect out
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'describe chokes on severly broken submodules' '
+ mv .git/modules/sub1/ .git/modules/sub_moved &&
+ test_must_fail git describe --dirty
+'
+test_expect_success 'describe ignoring a borken submodule' '
+ git describe --broken >out &&
+ grep broken out
+'
+
test_done
--
2.12.0.402.g0501f7a28e.dirty
