Subject: [PATCH 11/29] bisect: libify `bisect_next_all`

From: Miriam Rubio <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:37:42 +0100

From: Pranit Bauva <[email-masked]>

Since we want to get rid of git-bisect.sh it would be necessary to
convert those exit() calls to return statements so that errors can be
reported.

Emulate try catch in C by converting `exit(<positive-value>)` to
`return <negative-value>`. Follow POSIX conventions to return
<negative-value> to indicate error.

Turn `exit()` to `return` calls in `bisect_next_all()`.

All the functions calling `bisect_next_all()` are already able to
handle return values from it.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <[email-masked]>
Mentored-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Tanushree Tumane <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Miriam Rubio <[email-masked]>
---
 bisect.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bisect.c b/bisect.c
index acb5a13911..33f2829c19 100644
--- a/bisect.c
+++ b/bisect.c
@@ -967,10 +967,10 @@ void read_bisect_terms(const char **read_bad, const char **read_good)
 }
 
 /*
- * We use the convention that exiting with an exit code 10 means that
- * the bisection process finished successfully.
- * In this case the calling shell script should exit 0.
- *
+ * We use the convention that return -10 means the bisection process
+ * finished successfully.
+ * In this case the calling function or command should not turn a -10
+ * return code into an error or a non zero exit code.
  * If no_checkout is non-zero, the bisection process does not
  * checkout the trial commit but instead simply updates BISECT_HEAD.
  */
@@ -1000,23 +1000,35 @@ int bisect_next_all(struct repository *r, const char *prefix, int no_checkout)
 
 	if (!revs.commits) {
 		/*
-		 * We should exit here only if the "bad"
+		 * We should return error here only if the "bad"
 		 * commit is also a "skip" commit.
 		 */
 		res = error_if_skipped_commits(tried, NULL);
 		if (res)
-			exit(-res);
+			return res;
 		printf(_("%s was both %s and %s\n"),
 		       oid_to_hex(current_bad_oid),
 		       term_good,
 		       term_bad);
-		exit(1);
+
+		/*
+		 * We don't want to clean the bisection state
+		 * as we need to get back to where we started
+		 * by using `git bisect reset`.
+		 */
+		return -1;
 	}
 
 	if (!all) {
 		fprintf(stderr, _("No testable commit found.\n"
 			"Maybe you started with bad path parameters?\n"));
-		exit(4);
+
+		/*
+		 * We don't want to clean the bisection state
+		 * as we need to get back to where we started
+		 * by using `git bisect reset`.
+		 */
+		return -4;
 	}
 
 	bisect_rev = &revs.commits->item->object.oid;
@@ -1024,12 +1036,18 @@ int bisect_next_all(struct repository *r, const char *prefix, int no_checkout)
 	if (oideq(bisect_rev, current_bad_oid)) {
 		res = error_if_skipped_commits(tried, current_bad_oid);
 		if (res)
-			exit(-res);
+			return res;
 		printf("%s is the first %s commit\n", oid_to_hex(bisect_rev),
 			term_bad);
+
 		show_diff_tree(r, prefix, revs.commits->item);
-		/* This means the bisection process succeeded. */
-		exit(10);
+		/*
+		 * This means the bisection process succeeded.
+		 * Using -10 so that the call chain can simply check
+		 * for negative return values for early returns up
+		 * until the cmd_bisect__helper() caller.
+		 */
+		return -10;
 	}
 
 	nr = all - reaches - 1;
-- 
2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3)