Revision aba91192ae39cd1a2f79e7ed91e966df3cfe10b7 authored by Carlos Rica on 09 September 2007, 00:39:29 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 10 September 2007, 04:30:54 UTC
Most of this patch code and message was written by Shawn O. Pearce.
I made some tests to know what the problem was, and then I changed
the code related with the SIGPIPE signal.

If the user has misconfigured `user.signingkey` in their .git/config
or just doesn't have any secret keys on their keyring and they ask
for a signed tag with `git tag -s` we better make sure the resulting
tag was actually signed by gpg.

Prior versions of builtin git-tag allowed this failure to slip
by without error as they were not checking the return value of
the finish_command() so they did not notice when gpg exited with
an error exit status.  They also did not fail if gpg produced an
empty output or if read_in_full received an error from the read
system call while trying to read the pipe back from gpg.

Finally, we did not actually honor any return value from the do_sign
function as it returns ssize_t but was being stored into an unsigned
long.  This caused the compiler to optimize out the die condition,
allowing git-tag to continue along and create the tag object.

However, when gpg gets a wrong username, it exits before any read was done
and then the writing process receives SIGPIPE and program is terminated.
By ignoring this signal, anyway, the function write_or_die gets EPIPE from
write_in_full and exits returning 0 to the system without a message.
Here we better call to write_in_full directly so we can fail
printing a message and return safely to the caller.

With these issues fixed `git-tag -s` will now fail to create the
tag and will report a non-zero exit status to its caller, thereby
allowing automated helper scripts to detect (and recover from)
failure if gpg is not working properly.

Proposed-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-mailinfo.txt
git-mailinfo(1)
===============

NAME
----
git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message


SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding>] <msg> <patch>


DESCRIPTION
-----------
Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
<patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
written out to the standard output to be used by git-am
to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
command directly.  See gitlink:git-am[1] instead.


OPTIONS
-------
-k::
	Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line
	to extract the title line for the commit log message,
	among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading
	whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
	then prepends "[PATCH] ".  This flag forbids this
	munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git
	format-patch -k' output.

-u::
	The commit log message, author name and author email are
	taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
	transfer encoding, re-coded in UTF-8 by transliterating
	them.  This used to be optional but now it is the default.
+
Note that the patch is always used as-is without charset
conversion, even with this flag.

--encoding=<encoding>::
	Similar to -u but if the local convention is different
	from what is specified by i18n.commitencoding, this flag
	can be used to override it.

<msg>::
	The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
	except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.

<patch>::
	The patch extracted from e-mail.


Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>


Documentation
--------------
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT
---
Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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