From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:18:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] transport: Catch non positive --depth option value
Message-ID: <xmqq1u294ih3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <528E2660.6020107@gmail.com>

"Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte@gmail.com> writes:

> From 99e387151594572dc136bf1fae45593ee710e817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9s=20G=2E=20Aragoneses?= <knocte@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:55:08 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] transport: Catch non positive --depth option value
>
> Instead of simply ignoring the value passed to --depth
> option when it is zero or negative, now it is caught
> and reported.
>
> This will let people know that they were using the
> option incorrectly (as depth<0 should be simply invalid,
> and under the hood depth==0 didn't have any effect).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 

I didn't exactly "review" this.

Have you run the tests with this patch?  It seems that it breaks
quite a lot of them, including t5500, t5503, t5510, among others.

> ---
>  transport.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
> index 7202b77..edd63eb 100644
> --- a/transport.c
> +++ b/transport.c
> @@ -483,6 +483,8 @@ static int set_git_option(struct git_transport_options *opts,
>  			opts->depth = strtol(value, &end, 0);
>  			if (*end)
>  				die("transport: invalid depth option '%s'", value);
> +			if (opts->depth < 1)
> +				die("transport: invalid depth option '%s' (must be positive)", value);
>  		}
>  		return 0;
>  	}