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[PATCH] git-clean: handle errors if removing files fails

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Feb 21, 2008, 01:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20080221014446.GT31441@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<7vodab182n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

git-clean simply ignored errors if removing a file or directory failed. This patch makes it raise a warning and the exit code also greater than zero if there are remaining files.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
---
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:12:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> That's quite different style from the other commit log messages
> in the project, isn't it?
right, i rewrote it.
Show 5 quoted lines
> While I agree reporting an error is definitely an improvement, I
> do not think dying in the middle is the right thing to do.
>
> Shouldn't it note the error, remove other cruft, and then
> finally signal the error by exiting non-zero?
something like this?

i also noticed that we need a chmod 755 after the last test, otherwise removing the trash directory will not be possible. i haven't hit this bug by running the test only once.

 builtin-clean.c  |   22 ++++++++++++++--------
 t/t7300-clean.sh |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-clean.c b/builtin-clean.c
index eb853a3..5ed57d7 100644
--- a/builtin-clean.c
+++ b/builtin-clean.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	int i;
 	int show_only = 0, remove_directories = 0, quiet = 0, ignored = 0;
-	int ignored_only = 0, baselen = 0, config_set = 0;
+	int ignored_only = 0, baselen = 0, config_set = 0, errors = 0;
 	struct strbuf directory;
 	struct dir_struct dir;
 	const char *path, *base;
@@ -137,12 +137,15 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			if (show_only && (remove_directories || matches)) {
 				printf("Would remove %s\n",
 				       directory.buf + prefix_offset);
-			} else if (quiet && (remove_directories || matches)) {
-				remove_dir_recursively(&directory, 0);
 			} else if (remove_directories || matches) {
-				printf("Removing %s\n",
-				       directory.buf + prefix_offset);
-				remove_dir_recursively(&directory, 0);
+				if (!quiet)
+					printf("Removing %s\n",
+					       directory.buf + prefix_offset);
+				if (remove_dir_recursively(&directory, 0) != 0) {
+					warning("failed to remove '%s'",
+						directory.buf + prefix_offset);
+					errors++;
+				}
 			} else if (show_only) {
 				printf("Would not remove %s\n",
 				       directory.buf + prefix_offset);
@@ -162,11 +165,14 @@ int cmd_clean(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 				printf("Removing %s\n",
 				       ent->name + prefix_offset);
 			}
-			unlink(ent->name);
+			if (unlink(ent->name) != 0) {
+				warning("failed to remove '%s'", ent->name);
+				errors++;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	free(seen);
 
 	strbuf_release(&directory);
-	return 0;
+	return errors;
 }
diff --git a/t/t7300-clean.sh b/t/t7300-clean.sh
index dfd1188..3840364 100755
--- a/t/t7300-clean.sh
+++ b/t/t7300-clean.sh
@@ -316,4 +316,14 @@ test_expect_success 'core.excludesfile' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'removal failure' '
+
+	mkdir foo &&
+	touch foo/bar &&
+	chmod 0 foo &&
+	! git clean -f -d
+
+'
+chmod 755 foo
+
 test_done
-- 
1.5.4.1
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 3 of 3 in “git-clean: handle errors if removing files fails”
  1. git-clean: handle errors if removing files failsMiklos Vajna, Feb 20, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2008
  3. git-clean: handle errors if removing files failsMiklos Vajna, Feb 21, 2008

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