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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: atousa.p@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Atousa Pahlevan Duprat <apahlevan@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] git rev-list doesn't complain when repo is empty
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 04:10:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151125091010.GD4696@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448434853-7527-1-git-send-email-apahlevan@ieee.org>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:00:53PM -0800, atousa.p@gmail.com wrote:

> From: Atousa Pahlevan Duprat <apahlevan@ieee.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atousa Pahlevan Duprat <apahlevan@ieee.org>
> ---
>  builtin/rev-list.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/rev-list.c b/builtin/rev-list.c
> index d80d1ed..f71b87f 100644
> --- a/builtin/rev-list.c
> +++ b/builtin/rev-list.c
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	     (!(revs.tag_objects || revs.tree_objects || revs.blob_objects) &&
>  	      !revs.pending.nr)) ||
>  	    revs.diff)
> -		usage(rev_list_usage);
> +               return 0; // empty repo

Even if we were to agree that rev-list should exit with code 0 for "git
rev-list --all" in an empty repo, I do not think this patch is the right
way to do it. It also catches:

  git rev-list

with no arguments in a non-empty repository, which should produce a
usage() message.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-25  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-11 18:26 Suspected bug on `git -C <rp> rev-list --all` where <rp> has 0 commits yac
2015-11-25  6:56 ` Atousa Duprat
2015-11-25  7:00   ` [PATCH v1] git rev-list doesn't complain when repo is empty atousa.p
2015-11-25  9:10     ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-11-25  9:07   ` Suspected bug on `git -C <rp> rev-list --all` where <rp> has 0 commits Jeff King

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