From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:23:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: die if CA path doesn't exist
Message-ID: <20151125102335.GA2844@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151125101909.GF18913@serenity.lan>

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:19:09AM +0000, John Keeping wrote:

> > > Changes since v1:
> > > - add missing path to error message
> > > - remove trailing '.' on error message since die appends "at
> > >   /path/to/git-send-email line ..."
> > 
> > It won't if the error message ends with a newline. We seem to be wildly
> > inconsistent about that in send-email, though.
> 
> Interesting.  I think in this case it would definitely be better to add
> the newline and avoid printing the location in the script, but it may
> make more sense to have a separate pass over git-send-email.perl and fix
> all of the die() calls.
> 
> I suspect that everything except the equivalent of BUG() should be
> suppressing the location in a user-facing script like this.

Yeah, I think I'd agree. Your patch is merged to next, so we'd want a
separate patch to fix. And I agree that a whole pass over the script
probably makes sense.

In past projects I have also used a $SIG{__DIE__} handler to massage
errors into a nicer format, but it unfortunately gets pretty deep into
Perl voodoo.

-Peff