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[PATCH 4/6] bisect run: fix the error message

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 15, 2022, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID
<patch-4.6-59a8a3085b1-20221215T094038Z-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
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From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

In d1bbbe45df8 (bisect--helper: reimplement `bisect_run` shell function in C, 2021-09-13), we ported the `bisect run` subcommand to C, including the part that prints out an error message when the implicit `git bisect bad` or `git bisect good` failed.

However, the error message was supposed to print out whether the state was "good" or "bad", but used a bogus (because non-populated) `args` variable for it. This was fixed in 80c2e9657f2 (bisect--helper: report actual bisect_state() argument on error, 2022-01-18), but the error message still talks about `bisect--helper`, which is an implementation detail that should not concern end users.

Fix that, and add a regression test to ensure that the intended form of the error message.

Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/bisect.c            |  2 +-
 t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/bisect.c b/builtin/bisect.c
index 9fc8db06944..0786ebf4012 100644
--- a/builtin/bisect.c
+++ b/builtin/bisect.c
@@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ static int bisect_run(struct bisect_terms *terms, int argc, const char **argv)
 			puts(_("bisect found first bad commit"));
 			res = BISECT_OK;
 		} else if (res) {
-			error(_("bisect run failed: 'bisect-state %s'"
+			error(_("bisect run failed: 'git bisect %s'"
 				" exited with error code %d"), new_state, res);
 		} else {
 			continue;
diff --git a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
index 9e56b42b5da..0a62ea2b3ce 100755
--- a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
+++ b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
@@ -1221,4 +1221,14 @@ test_expect_success 'bisect state output with bad commit' '
 	grep -F "waiting for good commit(s), bad commit known" output
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'verify correct error message' '
+	git bisect reset &&
+	git bisect start $HASH4 $HASH1 &&
+	write_script test_script.sh <<-\EOF &&
+	rm .git/BISECT*
+	EOF
+	test_must_fail git bisect run ./test_script.sh 2>error &&
+	grep "git bisect good.*exited with error code" error
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
2.39.0.rc2.1048.g0e5493b8d5b
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Message 5 of 16 in “bisect: follow-up fixes from js/bisect-in-c”
  1. 0/6 bisect: follow-up fixes from js/bisect-in-cÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  2. 1/6 bisect--helper: simplify exit code computationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  3. 2/6 bisect--helper: make the order consistently `argc, argv`Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  4. 3/6 bisect: verify that a bogus option won't try to start a bisectionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  5. 4/6 bisect run: fix the error messageÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  6. Đoàn Trần Công DanhDec 15, 2022
  7. 5/6 bisect: remove Cogito-related codeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  8. 6/6 bisect: no longer try to clean up left-over `.git/head-name` filesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 15, 2022
  9. Christian CouderDec 15, 2022
  10. 0/6 bisect: follow-up fixes from js/bisect-in-cÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023
  11. 1/6 bisect--helper: simplify exit code computationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023
  12. 2/6 bisect--helper: make the order consistently `argc, argv`Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023
  13. 3/6 bisect: verify that a bogus option won't try to start a bisectionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023
  14. 5/6 bisect: remove Cogito-related codeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023
  15. 6/6 bisect: no longer try to clean up left-over `.git/head-name` filesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023
  16. 4/6 bisect run: fix the error messageÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jan 12, 2023

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