| commit | 2eda0102beb85b97bd43708176d81feabaf161e8 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | Thu Jul 13 10:56:10 2017 -0400 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Thu Jul 13 12:42:50 2017 -0700 |
| tree | c87815f88fbc559d434b3a8dd2c129803416de10 | |
| parent | 80145b1e412719c960036c8c62a9e35dd23a5b2d [diff] |
check return value of verify_ref_format() Users of the ref-filter code must call verify_ref_format() before formatting any refs, but most ignore its return value. This means we may print an error on a syntactically bogus pattern, but keep going anyway. In most cases this results in a fatal error when we actually try to format a ref. But if you have no refs to show at all, then the behavior is confusing: git prints the error from verify_ref_format(), then exits with code 0 without showing any output. Let's instead abort immediately if we know we have a bogus format. We'll output the usage information if we have it handy (just like the existing call in cmd_for_each_ref() does), and otherwise just die(). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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