X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=help.c;h=cbbe966f685b276cac702bb0fd9a44bfbf5f0e79;hb=6c65b5ea439165512d128e18829b67688ddab9cc;hp=7654f1bfd608d151a213937614449cc497bb638b;hpb=ed36a48e6d246f4f60d44b27e8c1e660151cd0b4;p=git.git

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 7654f1bfd..cbbe966f6 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ static int is_executable(const char *name)
 	    !S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
 		return 0;
 
-#ifdef WIN32
+#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
+#if defined(__CYGWIN__)
+if ((st.st_mode & S_IXUSR) == 0)
+#endif
 {	/* cannot trust the executable bit, peek into the file instead */
 	char buf[3] = { 0 };
 	int n;
@@ -302,6 +305,10 @@ static void add_cmd_list(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *old)
 #define SIMILARITY_FLOOR 7
 #define SIMILAR_ENOUGH(x) ((x) < SIMILARITY_FLOOR)
 
+static const char bad_interpreter_advice[] =
+	N_("'%s' appears to be a git command, but we were not\n"
+	"able to execute it. Maybe git-%s is broken?");
+
 const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 {
 	int i, n, best_similarity = 0;
@@ -326,6 +333,14 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd)
 		int cmp = 0; /* avoid compiler stupidity */
 		const char *candidate = main_cmds.names[i]->name;
 
+		/*
+		 * An exact match means we have the command, but
+		 * for some reason exec'ing it gave us ENOENT; probably
+		 * it's a bad interpreter in the #! line.
+		 */
+		if (!strcmp(candidate, cmd))
+			die(_(bad_interpreter_advice), cmd, cmd);
+
 		/* Does the candidate appear in common_cmds list? */
 		while (n < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds) &&
 		       (cmp = strcmp(common_cmds[n].name, candidate)) < 0)