Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] submodule: improve submodule_has_commits

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> On 05/01, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
>> > +
>> > +               if (capture_command(&cp, &out, GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1) || out.len)
>>
>> eh, I gave too much and self-contradicting feedback here earlier,
>> ideally I'd like to review this to be similar as:
>>
>>     if (capture_command(&cp, &out, GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1)
>>         die("cannot capture git-rev-list in submodule '%s', sub->path);
>
> This wouldn't really work because if you provide a SHA1 to rev-list
> which it isn't able to find then it returns a non-zero exit code which
> would cause this to die, which isn't the desired behavior.

Oh. In that case, why do we even check for its stdout?
(from rev-lists man page)
       --quiet
           Don’t print anything to standard output. This form is primarily
           meant to allow the caller to test the exit status to see if a range
           of objects is fully connected (or not). It is faster than
           redirecting stdout to /dev/null as the output does not have to be
           formatted.

>
> I feel like you're making this a little too complicated, as all I'm
> doing is shuffling around already existing logic.  I understand the want
> to make things more robust but this seems unnecessarily complex.

ok. I was just giving my thoughts on how I would approach it.

Thanks,
Stefan