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[PATCH] Nicer error messages in case saving an object to db goes wrong

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 9, 2006, 12:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20061109125205.25131.50211.stgit@machine.or.cz>

Currently the error e.g. when pushing to a read-only repository is quite confusing, this attempts to clean it up, unifies error reporting between various object writers and uses error() on couple more places.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---
 sha1_file.c |   21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 6ea59b5..09456d2 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -1455,8 +1455,7 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfil
 	unlink(tmpfile);
 	if (ret) {
 		if (ret != EEXIST) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "unable to write sha1 filename %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(ret));
-			return -1;
+			return error("unable to write sha1 filename %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(ret));
 		}
 		/* FIXME!!! Collision check here ? */
 	}
@@ -1566,16 +1565,17 @@ int write_sha1_file(void *buf, unsigned
 	}
 
 	if (errno != ENOENT) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "sha1 file %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(errno));
-		return -1;
+		return error("sha1 file %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(errno));
 	}
 
 	snprintf(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), "%s/obj_XXXXXX", get_object_directory());
 
 	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "unable to create temporary sha1 filename %s: %s\n", tmpfile, strerror(errno));
-		return -1;
+		if (errno == EPERM)
+			return error("insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database %s\n", get_object_directory());
+		else
+			return error("unable to create temporary sha1 filename %s: %s\n", tmpfile, strerror(errno));
 	}
 
 	/* Set it up */
@@ -1690,9 +1690,12 @@ int write_sha1_from_fd(const unsigned ch
 	snprintf(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), "%s/obj_XXXXXX", get_object_directory());
 
 	local = mkstemp(tmpfile);
-	if (local < 0)
-		return error("Couldn't open %s for %s",
-			     tmpfile, sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+	if (local < 0) {
+		if (errno == EPERM)
+			return error("insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database %s\n", get_object_directory());
+		else
+			return error("unable to create temporary sha1 filename %s: %s\n", tmpfile, strerror(errno));
+	}
 
 	memset(&stream, 0, sizeof(stream));
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