Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: don't create master if another head exists

[Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:27:22AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:56:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > If the caller does not handle errors, it could be even clearer to
> > > write it like
> > > 
> > > 	command_noisy(qw(update-ref HEAD), $gs->refname) ||
> > > 		die "Cannot update HEAD!!!";
> > 
> > Turns out that command_noisy()
> >  - has a meaningless return value
> >  - throws an exception on command failure
> > so the "||" bit does not work.
> > Also, for some reason command_noisy does not check for the command being
> > killed by a signal, so I'd prefer to leave the verify_ref there.
> 
> Ugh, I always forget the Git.pm API, too.  Perhaps command_noisy should
> be made to respect signals in exit codes (the rest of git-svn is
> compromised by this behavior in command_noisy, too, it turns out... :x)
> 
> I'm not sure what else would break if command_noisy were changed,
> git-svn appears to be the only user in git.git.

Other "command" flavours should probably also be changed to match?

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