[PATCH] Print a sane error message if an alias expands to an invalid git command
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:53
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> --- git.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 82a8357..c43d4ff 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c@@ -387,8 +387,15 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv, char **envp) done_alias = 1; } - if (errno == ENOENT) + if (errno == ENOENT) { + if (done_alias) { + fprintf(stderr, "Expansion of alias '%s' failed; " + "'%s' is not a git-command\n", + cmd, argv[0]); + exit(1); + } help_unknown_cmd(cmd); + } fprintf(stderr, "Failed to run command '%s': %s\n", cmd, strerror(errno));
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