From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:49:45 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.4-rc0~65^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da53eec68873e76c68086e405f3f1329d47055b3;p=git.git

merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index

Part of a campaign to make sure "git <command> -h" works correctly
when run from distractingly bad repositories.

[jn: with rewritten log message and tests]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 5f65c0c8a..584c94f6f 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -909,6 +909,8 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	const char *best_strategy = NULL, *wt_strategy = NULL;
 	struct commit_list **remotes = &remoteheads;
 
+	if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
+		usage_with_options(builtin_merge_usage, builtin_merge_options);
 	if (read_cache_unmerged()) {
 		die_resolve_conflict("merge");
 	}
diff --git a/t/t7600-merge.sh b/t/t7600-merge.sh
index b4f40e4c3..b147a1bd6 100755
--- a/t/t7600-merge.sh
+++ b/t/t7600-merge.sh
@@ -144,6 +144,17 @@ test_expect_success 'test option parsing' '
 	test_must_fail git merge
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'merge -h with invalid index' '
+	mkdir broken &&
+	(
+		cd broken &&
+		git init &&
+		>.git/index &&
+		test_expect_code 129 git merge -h 2>usage
+	) &&
+	grep "[Uu]sage: git merge" broken/usage
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'reject non-strategy with a git-merge-foo name' '
 	test_must_fail git merge -s index c1
 '