From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:06:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Fix "git clone" for git:// protocol X-Git-Tag: v1.5.5-rc0~228^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb32c9172a1f2828d75f5d17d8ceea8ffe692f2a;p=git.git Fix "git clone" for git:// protocol In ba227857(Reduce the number of connects when fetching), we checked the return value of git_connect() to see if the connection was successful. However, for the git:// protocol, there is no need to have another process, so the return value was NULL. Now, it makes sense to assume the rule that git_connect() will return NULL if it fails (at the moment, it die()s if it fails), so return a dummy child process. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Acked-by: Daniel Barkalow Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c index 3aefd4ace..700cebad9 100644 --- a/connect.c +++ b/connect.c @@ -472,14 +472,18 @@ char *get_port(char *host) return NULL; } +static struct child_process no_fork; + /* - * This returns NULL if the transport protocol does not need fork(2), or a - * struct child_process object if it does. Once done, finish the connection - * with finish_connect() with the value returned from this function - * (it is safe to call finish_connect() with NULL to support the former - * case). + * This returns a dummy child_process if the transport protocol does not + * need fork(2), or a struct child_process object if it does. Once done, + * finish the connection with finish_connect() with the value returned from + * this function (it is safe to call finish_connect() with NULL to support + * the former case). * - * If it returns, the connect is successful; it just dies on errors. + * If it returns, the connect is successful; it just dies on errors (this + * will hopefully be changed in a libification effort, to return NULL when + * the connection failed). */ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig, const char *prog, int flags) @@ -577,7 +581,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig, free(url); if (free_path) free(path); - return NULL; + return &no_fork; } conn = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*conn)); @@ -635,7 +639,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig, int finish_connect(struct child_process *conn) { int code; - if (!conn) + if (!conn || conn == &no_fork) return 0; code = finish_command(conn);