Re: [PATCH] diff.c: die on unknown color-moved ws mode
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-12 01:22:52
Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <redacted> --- There is no "ignore-any" supported by the feature---I think that the parser for the option should have noticed and barfed, but it did not. It merely emitted a message to the standard output and let it scroll away with the huge diff before the reader noticed it. Addressed in this patch. Am I missing something [...] ? Note that this parsing is used for both the parsing from command line as well as options, i.e.
Hmph, is it our convention for a value that is not yet known to the current version of Git found in a configuration file to cause it to die? I somehow thought that command line options are checked more strictly and configuration variables are parsed more leniently. If that is the case, the place that dies need to be raised in the callchain; iow, instead of dying inside the parser, it is necessary to let it only detect a problem and allow the caller to decide what to do with the problem, I would think.
git config diff.colorMovedWS asdf git format-patch HEAD^ fatal: ignoring unknown color-moved-ws mode 'asdf' git config --unset diff.colorMovedWS
quoted hunk
(format-patch parses these color specific things, but doesn't apply it) diff.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index 145cfbae59..bdf4535d69 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int parse_color_moved_ws(const char *arg) else if (!strcmp(sb.buf, "allow-indentation-change")) ret |= COLOR_MOVED_WS_ALLOW_INDENTATION_CHANGE; else - error(_("ignoring unknown color-moved-ws mode '%s'"), sb.buf); + die(_("ignoring unknown color-moved-ws mode '%s'"), sb.buf); strbuf_release(&sb); }