Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: Fix push status report when all branches fail

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 07:22:10AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> > +                       /*
> > +                        * Ignore write errors; there's nothing we can do,
> > +                        * since we're about to close the pipe anyway. And the
> > +                        * most likely error is EPIPE due to the helper dying
> > +                        * to report an error itself.
> > +                        */
> > +                       sigchain_push(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
> > +                       xwrite(data->helper->in, "\n", 1);
> > +                       sigchain_pop(SIGPIPE);
> [...]
> 
> This sounds right to me. Its unfortunate that we missed the error
> status output when we built the remote helper protocol, but your patch
> above might be the best we can do now.
> 
> Eh, well, actually we could have the helper advertise a new capability
> that can be enabled to return exit status. That is a much bigger
> change, and even if we do it for remote-curl (since that is in tree
> and easy to update) we still need your patch for the same race
> condition for out of tree helpers (which Google actually has so I care
> about out of tree helpers too).

I don't think it's worth a new capability. This is one of those "it
would be nice if it were designed that way from day one" cases, but it
wasn't. And while this is a minor hack, I don't think it has any
functional downsides. So adding a new capability on top of the hack just
makes things more complex.

I'll re-send the patch with a stand-alone commit message.

-Peff