[PATCH 6/7] merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Oct 22, 2010, 06:49 UTC

Message-ID

<20101022064945.GG6081@burratino>

In-Reply-To

<20101022063837.GA6081@burratino>

From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>

[jn: with rewritten log message and tests]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/merge.c  |    2 ++
 t/t7600-merge.sh |   11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 5f65c0c..584c94f 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -909,6 +909,8 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	const char *best_strategy = NULL, *wt_strategy = NULL;
 	struct commit_list **remotes = &remoteheads;
 
+	if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
+		usage_with_options(builtin_merge_usage, builtin_merge_options);
 	if (read_cache_unmerged()) {
 		die_resolve_conflict("merge");
 	}
diff --git a/t/t7600-merge.sh b/t/t7600-merge.sh
index b4f40e4..b147a1b 100755
--- a/t/t7600-merge.sh
+++ b/t/t7600-merge.sh
@@ -144,6 +144,17 @@ test_expect_success 'test option parsing' '
 	test_must_fail git merge
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'merge -h with invalid index' '
+	mkdir broken &&
+	(
+		cd broken &&
+		git init &&
+		>.git/index &&
+		test_expect_code 129 git merge -h 2>usage
+	) &&
+	grep "[Uu]sage: git merge" broken/usage
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'reject non-strategy with a git-merge-foo name' '
 	test_must_fail git merge -s index c1
 '

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