commit-reach(repo_in_merge_bases_many): report missing commits

Some functions in Git's source code follow the convention that returning
a negative value indicates a fatal error, e.g. repository corruption.

Let's use this convention in `repo_in_merge_bases()` to report when one
of the specified commits is missing (i.e. when `repo_parse_commit()`
reports an error).

Also adjust the callers of `repo_in_merge_bases()` to handle such
negative return values.

Note: As of this patch, errors are returned only if any of the specified
merge heads is missing. Over the course of the next patches, missing
commits will also be reported by the `paint_down_to_common()` function,
which is called by `repo_in_merge_bases_many()`, and those errors will
be properly propagated back to the caller at that stage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/shallow.c b/shallow.c
index 998072d04a..7ff50dd0da 100644
--- a/shallow.c
+++ b/shallow.c
@@ -794,12 +794,16 @@ static void post_assign_shallow(struct shallow_info *info,
 		if (!*bitmap)
 			continue;
 		for (j = 0; j < bitmap_nr; j++)
-			if (bitmap[0][j] &&
-			    /* Step 7, reachability test at commit level */
-			    !repo_in_merge_bases_many(the_repository, c, ca.nr, ca.commits, 1)) {
-				update_refstatus(ref_status, info->ref->nr, *bitmap);
-				dst++;
-				break;
+			if (bitmap[0][j]) {
+				/* Step 7, reachability test at commit level */
+				int ret = repo_in_merge_bases_many(the_repository, c, ca.nr, ca.commits, 1);
+				if (ret < 0)
+					exit(128);
+				if (!ret) {
+					update_refstatus(ref_status, info->ref->nr, *bitmap);
+					dst++;
+					break;
+				}
 			}
 	}
 	info->nr_ours = dst;
@@ -829,6 +833,8 @@ int delayed_reachability_test(struct shallow_info *si, int c)
 							    si->nr_commits,
 							    si->commits,
 							    1);
+		if (si->reachable[c] < 0)
+			exit(128);
 		si->need_reachability_test[c] = 0;
 	}
 	return si->reachable[c];