All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Arthur Milchior <arthur.milchior@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Misleading error message on a failed `git mv`
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:25:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfggfybp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230111214337.ybrmiyeius5xzalf@tb-raspi4> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:43:37 +0100")

On Jan 11 2023, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c
> index 19790ce38f..58e24889c0 100644
> --- a/builtin/mv.c
> +++ b/builtin/mv.c
> @@ -452,8 +452,12 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  		if (!(mode & (INDEX | SPARSE | SKIP_WORKTREE_DIR)) &&
>  		    !(dst_mode & (SKIP_WORKTREE_DIR | SPARSE)) &&
>  		    rename(src, dst) < 0) {
> +			struct stat st;
>  			if (ignore_errors)
>  				continue;
> +			if (!lstat(src, &st)) {
> +				die_errno(_("moving '%s' into destination '%s' failed"), src, dst);
> +			}

That will lose errno, though.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
"And now for something completely different."

      reply	other threads:[~2023-01-11 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-11  4:19 Misleading error message on a failed `git mv` Arthur Milchior
2023-01-11 19:07 ` Jeff King
2023-01-11 21:43   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2023-01-11 23:25     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87sfggfybp.fsf@igel.home \
    --to=schwab@linux-m68k.org \
    --cc=arthur.milchior@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=peff@peff.net \
    --cc=tboegi@web.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.