[PATCH] difftool: fix bug when printing usage

From

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>

Date

Feb 5, 2017, 21:23 UTC

Message-ID

<20170205212338.17667-1-davvid@gmail.com>

In-Reply-To

<20170205201751.z4rfmy5xxaqg472l@gmail.com>

"git difftool -h" reports an error:

	fatal: BUG: setup_git_env called without repository

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
This bug exists in both "master" and "next".
This patch has been tested on both branches.

 builtin/difftool.c  |  8 ++++----
 t/t7800-difftool.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/difftool.c b/builtin/difftool.c
index b5e85ab079..d13350ce83 100644
--- a/builtin/difftool.c
+++ b/builtin/difftool.c
@@ -647,10 +647,6 @@ int cmd_difftool(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 
-	/* NEEDSWORK: once we no longer spawn anything, remove this */
-	setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, absolute_path(get_git_dir()), 1);
-	setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, absolute_path(get_git_work_tree()), 1);
-
 	git_config(difftool_config, NULL);
 	symlinks = has_symlinks;
 
@@ -661,6 +657,10 @@ int cmd_difftool(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (tool_help)
 		return print_tool_help();
 
+	/* NEEDSWORK: once we no longer spawn anything, remove this */
+	setenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, absolute_path(get_git_dir()), 1);
+	setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, absolute_path(get_git_work_tree()), 1);
+
 	if (use_gui_tool && diff_gui_tool && *diff_gui_tool)
 		setenv("GIT_DIFF_TOOL", diff_gui_tool, 1);
 	else if (difftool_cmd) {
diff --git a/t/t7800-difftool.sh b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
index aa0ef02597..21e2ac4ad6 100755
--- a/t/t7800-difftool.sh
+++ b/t/t7800-difftool.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,19 @@ prompt_given ()
 	test "$prompt" = "Launch 'test-tool' [Y/n]? branch"
 }
 
+test_expect_success 'basic usage requires no repo' '
+	lines=$(git difftool -h | grep ^usage: | wc -l) &&
+	test "$lines" -eq 1 &&
+	# create a ceiling directory to prevent Git from finding a repo
+	mkdir -p not/repo &&
+	ceiling="$PWD/not" &&
+	lines=$(cd not/repo &&
+		GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$ceiling" git difftool -h |
+		grep ^usage: | wc -l) &&
+	test "$lines" -eq 1 &&
+	rmdir -p not/repo
+'
+
 # Create a file on master and change it on branch
 test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	echo master >file &&

-- 
2.12.0.rc0.209.g3d1e53e462