Célestin MatteUsers may be confused when they run the perl script directly. A good way to detect this is to check the number of parameters used to call the script, which is never different from 2 in a normal use. Display a proper error message to avoid any confusion.
Signed-off-by: Célestin Matte <celestin.matte@ensimag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> --- contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl index 9c14c1f..9b71972 100755 --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ use constant NULL_SHA1 => "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"; # Used on Git's side to reflect empty edit messages on the wiki use constant EMPTY_MESSAGE => '*Empty MediaWiki Message*'; +if (@ARGV != 2) { + exit_error_usage(); +} + my $remotename = $ARGV[0]; my $url = $ARGV[1]; @@ -156,6 +160,17 @@ while (<STDIN>) { ########################## Functions ############################## +## error handling +sub exit_error_usage { + die "ERROR: git-remote-mediawiki module was not called with a correct number of\n" . + "parameters\n" . + "You may obtain this error because you attempted to run the git-remote-mediawiki\n" . + "module directly.\n" . + "This module can be used the following way:\n" . + "\tgit clone mediawiki://<address of a mediawiki>\n" . + "Then, use git commit, push and pull as with every normal git repository.\n"; +} + ## credential API management (generic functions) sub credential_read {
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