Subject: [PATCH v3 4/8] url: return URL_SCHEME_UNKNOWN instead of dying

From: "Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2026 05:28:38 +0000

From: Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira <[email-masked]>

Enumerate a URL_SCHEME_UNKNOWN result with value 0.
Have url_get_scheme() return it for unrecognized
schemes instead of calling die() itself.
Move the die() call to parse_connect_url()
where url_get_scheme() is used.

This lets url_get_scheme() be used from contexts
that need to identify a URL's scheme without aborting
the program. For example, a future plumbing command
that validates URLs.

No external behavior change. parse_connect_url() still dies
with the same translated message for unrecognized schemes.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira <[email-masked]>
---
 connect.c | 2 ++
 url.c     | 3 +--
 url.h     | 7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 1ac7acc6e8..73d7a6b8d0 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -1071,6 +1071,8 @@ static enum url_scheme parse_connect_url(const char *url_orig, char **ret_host,
 	if (host) {
 		*host = '\0';
 		scheme = url_get_scheme(url);
+		if (scheme == URL_SCHEME_UNKNOWN)
+			die(_("protocol '%s' is not supported"), url);
 		host += 3;
 	} else {
 		host = url;
diff --git a/url.c b/url.c
index 300acf98fe..a59818278f 100644
--- a/url.c
+++ b/url.c
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #include "git-compat-util.h"
-#include "gettext.h"
 #include "hex-ll.h"
 #include "strbuf.h"
 #include "url.h"
@@ -154,5 +153,5 @@ enum url_scheme url_get_scheme(const char *name)
 		return URL_SCHEME_SSH;
 	if (!strcmp(name, "file"))
 		return URL_SCHEME_FILE;
-	die(_("protocol '%s' is not supported"), name);
+	return URL_SCHEME_UNKNOWN;
 }
diff --git a/url.h b/url.h
index 24c8cd91d0..7289523605 100644
--- a/url.h
+++ b/url.h
@@ -24,15 +24,16 @@ void str_end_url_with_slash(const char *url, char **dest);
 int url_is_local_not_ssh(const char *url);
 
 enum url_scheme {
-	URL_SCHEME_LOCAL = 1,
+	URL_SCHEME_UNKNOWN = 0,
+	URL_SCHEME_LOCAL,
 	URL_SCHEME_FILE,
 	URL_SCHEME_SSH,
 	URL_SCHEME_GIT,
 };
 
 /*
- * Identify the URL scheme by name. Dies if the name does not match
- * any scheme that Git knows about.
+ * Identify the URL scheme by name. Returns URL_SCHEME_UNKNOWN
+ * if the name does not match any scheme that Git knows about.
  */
 enum url_scheme url_get_scheme(const char *name);
 
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