Re: [RFC PATCH] rev-parse: fix segfault with missing --path-format argument

Wolfgang Müller [off-list ref] writes:

On 2021-05-16 21:53, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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As die() is end-user facing, you'd probably want

	die(_("--path-format requires an argument"));

We do have untranslated die() nearby for the same option, which may
want to be cleaned up either in a preliminary patch, or in this same
patch as an unrelated fix "while we are at it".

I would not mind preparing a preliminary patch that cleans up all
untranslated user-facing calls to die(). My editor finds 15 of those in
rev-parse.c, and I think they all qualify.

If you'd rather not touch unrelated code paths I'll instead include it
in v2 as an unrelated fix in the same commit.

I am puzzled by the last paragraph.  Somebody who does not want to
see "unrelated" codepaths touched would appreciate if a commit that
fixes this segfault does not touch them at the same time.

In any case, I now counted existing die() messages in this file, and
among 15 of them, only 1 is marked with _(...).  I think that it
is the best to apply the patch as-is (without _(...)), adding one
untranslated message to the file.

Then, on top of this change, the 15 untranslated messages can be
marked with _(...) a separate commit (and it does not even have to
be done by you).

I think I initially went for "--path-format --show-toplevel" because I
was under the assumption that --path-format needs another option it can
modify. It seems that this is not the case, so wouldn't it be simpler
here to do the following instead:

	test_must_fail git rev-parse --path-format

That way we do not have to worry about subsequent changes to other,
unrelated, options.

That's good, too.  Simple.

Thanks.