From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:37:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Git::unquote_path() throw an exception on bad path
Message-ID: <xmqqh8z7ke57.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170622102622.26147-4-phillip.wood@talktalk.net>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>
> This is what the other routines in Git.pm do if there's an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> ---
>  perl/Git.pm | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
> index 889bf88cfcd34136e24e166fb3b72cced6debf9d..51cb3446088dd12e8fd93d47b95e29fab22a8466 100644
> --- a/perl/Git.pm
> +++ b/perl/Git.pm
> @@ -1493,8 +1493,8 @@ when not using -z
>  					$_ = $2;
>  					last;
>  				}
> -				# This is malformed -- just return it as-is for now.
> -				return $_[0];
> +				# This is malformed
> +				throw Error::Simple("Invalid quoted path $_[0]");
>  			}

Output from "git grep Error::Simple" tells me that mostly we do not
upcase the first word of the error message.  Perhaps this should
follow the convention.

It is a different matter that use of Error::Simple has been
discouraged for quite some time (e.g. *1*) and we haven't been got
around doing that.  When the clean-up happens, this code will have
to be migrated to a different mechanism together with 30+ existing
uses of it; in the scope of this series, throwing of Error::Simple 
is consistent with the remainder of Git.pm and is a good thing.

[References]

*1* https://public-inbox.org/git/1330809281-25774-1-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com/