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[PATCH 05/20] merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursive

From
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2020, 03:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20201030034131.1479968-6-newren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20201030034131.1479968-1-newren@gmail.com>

Various places in merge-recursive used an err() function when it hit some kind of unrecoverable error. That code was from the reusable bits of merge-recursive.c that we liked, such as merge_3way, writing object files to the object store, reading blobs from the object store, etc. So create a similar function to allow us to port that code over, and use it for when we detect problems returned from collect_merge_info()'s traverse_trees() call, which we will be adding next.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 merge-ort.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index e629d7b62c..ffea7ac8ea 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -61,11 +61,28 @@ struct conflict_info {
 	unsigned match_mask:3;
 };
 
+static int err(struct merge_options *opt, const char *err, ...)
+{
+	va_list params;
+	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+	strbuf_addstr(&sb, "error: ");
+	va_start(params, err);
+	strbuf_vaddf(&sb, err, params);
+	va_end(params);
+
+	error("%s", sb.buf);
+	strbuf_release(&sb);
+
+	return -1;
+}
+
 static int collect_merge_info(struct merge_options *opt,
 			      struct tree *merge_base,
 			      struct tree *side1,
 			      struct tree *side2)
 {
+	/* TODO: Implement this using traverse_trees() */
 	die("Not yet implemented.");
 }
 
@@ -167,7 +184,15 @@ static void merge_ort_nonrecursive_internal(struct merge_options *opt,
 {
 	struct object_id working_tree_oid;
 
-	collect_merge_info(opt, merge_base, side1, side2);
+	if (collect_merge_info(opt, merge_base, side1, side2) != 0) {
+		err(opt, _("collecting merge info failed for trees %s, %s, %s"),
+		    oid_to_hex(&merge_base->object.oid),
+		    oid_to_hex(&side1->object.oid),
+		    oid_to_hex(&side2->object.oid));
+		result->clean = -1;
+		return;
+	}
+
 	result->clean = detect_and_process_renames(opt, merge_base,
 						   side1, side2);
 	process_entries(opt, &working_tree_oid);
-- 
2.29.1.56.ga287c268e6.dirty
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  1. 00/20 fundamentals of merge-ort implementationElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  2. 07/20 merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same treeElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  3. 04/20 merge-ort: use histogram diffElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  4. 01/20 merge-ort: setup basic internal data structuresElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  5. 02/20 merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structureElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  6. 06/20 merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  7. 13/20 merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oidsElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  8. 11/20 merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementationElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  9. 12/20 merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined orderElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  10. 10/20 merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical treesElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  11. 14/20 merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree objectElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  12. 15/20 merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we goElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  13. 20/20 merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  14. 19/20 merge-ort: add implementation of record_unmerged_index_entries()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  15. 18/20 tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhereElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  16. 17/20 merge-ort: add implementation of checkout()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  17. 16/20 merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result()Elijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  18. 05/20 merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursiveElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  19. 09/20 merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every pathElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  20. 03/20 merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursiveElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  21. 08/20 merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_infoElijah Newren, Oct 30, 2020
  22. Elijah NewrenOct 30, 2020

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