We disallow the use of revisions with --no-index, but we
don't actually check and complain until well after we've
parsed the revisions.
This is the cause of a few problems:
1. We shouldn't be calling get_sha1() at all when we aren't
in a repository, as it might access the ref or object
databases. For now, this should generally just return
failure, but eventually it will become a BUG().
2. When there's a "--" disambiguator and you're outside a
repository, we'll complain early with "unable to resolve
revision". But we can give a much more specific error.
3. When there isn't a "--" disambiguator, we still do the
normal rev/path checks. This is silly, as we know we
cannot have any revs with --no-index. Everything we see
must be a path.
Outside of a repository this doesn't matter (since we
know it won't resolve), but inside one, we may complain
unnecessarily if a filename happens to also match a
refname.
This patch skips the get_sha1() call entirely in the
no-index case, and behaves as if it failed (with the
exception of giving a better error message).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
builtin/grep.c | 6 ++++++
t/t7810-grep.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index e83b33bda..c4c632594 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -1176,6 +1176,12 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
break;
}
+ if (!use_index) {
+ if (seen_dashdash)
+ die(_("--no-index cannot be used with revs"));
+ break;
+ }
+
if (get_sha1_with_context(arg, 0, sha1, &oc)) {
if (seen_dashdash)
die(_("unable to resolve revision: %s"), arg);
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index a6011f9b1..c051c7ee8 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -1030,6 +1030,19 @@ test_expect_success 'grep --no-index pattern -- path' '
)
'
+test_expect_success 'grep --no-index complains of revs' '
+ test_must_fail git grep --no-index o master -- 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "no-index cannot be used with revs" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'grep --no-index prefers paths to revs' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -f master" &&
+ echo content >master &&
+ echo master:content >expect &&
+ git grep --no-index o master >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
cat >expected <<EOF
hello.c:int main(int argc, const char **argv)
hello.c: printf("Hello world.\n");
--
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