describe: error if blob not found

If describe_blob() does not find the blob in question, it returns an
empty strbuf, and we print an empty line. This differs from
describe_commit(), which always either returns an answer or calls die()
itself. As the blob function was bolted onto the command afterwards, I
think its behavior is not intentional, and it is just a bug that it does
not report an error.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2025-08-18 17:01:25 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent e715f77682
commit db2664b6f7
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@ -535,6 +535,9 @@ static void describe_blob(const struct object_id *oid, struct strbuf *dst)
reset_revision_walk();
release_revisions(&revs);
strvec_clear(&args);
if (!dst->len)
die(_("blob '%s' not reachable from HEAD"), oid_to_hex(oid));
}
static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)

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@ -409,6 +409,12 @@ test_expect_success 'describe tag object' '
test_grep "fatal: test-blob-1 is neither a commit nor blob" actual
'
test_expect_success 'describe an unreachable blob' '
blob=$(echo not-found-anywhere | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
test_must_fail git describe $blob 2>actual &&
test_grep "blob .$blob. not reachable from HEAD" actual
'
test_expect_success ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE 'name-rev works in a deep repo' '
i=1 &&
while test $i -lt 8000