diff/status: print submodule path when looking for changes fails

diff and status run "git status --porcelain" inside each populated
submodule to see if it contains changes (unless told not to do so via
config or command line option). When that fails, e.g. due to a corrupt
submodule .git directory, it just prints "git status --porcelain failed"
or "Could not run git status --porcelain" without giving the user a clue
where that happened.

Add '"in submodule %s", path' to these error strings to tell the user
where exactly the problem occurred.

Reported-by: Seth Robertson <in-gitvger@baka.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 3f851deb6afad564a786912a7bb4f9069d697ec7..8340b1956f904b40d24cf21dbe67451a42690436 100644 (file)
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -148,13 +148,13 @@ int is_submodule_modified(const char *path)
        cp.no_stdin = 1;
        cp.out = -1;
        if (start_command(&cp))
-               die("Could not run git status --porcelain");
+               die("Could not run 'git status --porcelain' in submodule %s", path);
 
        len = strbuf_read(&buf, cp.out, 1024);
        close(cp.out);
 
        if (finish_command(&cp))
-               die("git status --porcelain failed");
+               die("'git status --porcelain' failed in submodule %s", path);
 
        free(env[0]);
        free(env[1]);