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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Die if there are parsing errors in config file

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2010, 02:46 UTC
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<201002130346.51968.jnareb@gmail.com>
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Ping!

I didn't want to push for it before 1.7.0, but now that 1.7.0 is out...

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Otherwise the errors can propagate, and show in damnest places, and
> you would spend your time chasing ghosts instead of debugging real
> problem (yes, it is from personal experience).
> 
> This follows (parts of) advice in `perldoc -f do` documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
  Acked-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/139226/focus=139230
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> ---
> This is fallout from my work on [split] "Gitweb output caching" series.
> Before I used `die $@ if $@;' in t/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl, tests
> failed for no discernable reason...
> 
> So I think the same should be done for the gitweb config file.
> 
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 1f6978a..a5bc359 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -556,6 +556,8 @@ if (-e $GITWEB_CONFIG) {
>  	our $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM = $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM'} || "++GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM++";
>  	do $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM if -e $GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM;
>  }
> +# die if there are errors parsing config file
> +die $@ if $@;
>  
>  # Get loadavg of system, to compare against $maxload.
>  # Currently it requires '/proc/loadavg' present to get loadavg;
> 
> 
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  2. J.H.Feb 7, 2010
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