(address . guix-patches@gnu.org)
* guix/git-download.scm (git-version): Add a check for commit ID length.
---
If you're curious for the motivation, see [1]. This took a while to
debug, so I'm hoping to ease this for the next person who inevitably
stumbles upon this. Is a change like this okay?
guix/git-download.scm | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/guix/git-download.scm b/guix/git-download.scm
index 1eae035fc4..40d81c72b9 100644
--- a/guix/git-download.scm
+++ b/guix/git-download.scm
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Jakub K?dzio?ka <kuba@kadziolka.net>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
#:use-module (ice-9 match)
#:use-module (ice-9 vlist)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
+ #:use-module (srfi srfi-35)
#:export (git-reference
git-reference?
git-reference-url
@@ -170,6 +172,13 @@ HASH-ALGO (a symbol). Use NAME as the file name, or a generic name if #f."
(define (git-version version revision commit)
"Return the version string for packages using git-download."
+ ;; git-version is almost exclusively executed while modules are being loaded.
+ ;; This makes any errors hide their backtrace. Avoid the mysterious error
+ ;; "Value out of range 0 to N: 7" when the commit ID is too short, which
+ ;; can happen, for example, when the user swapped the revision and commit
+ ;; arguments by mistake.
+ (when (< (string-length commit) 7)
+ (error "git-version: commit ID unexpectedly short"))
(string-append version "-" revision "." (string-take commit 7)))
(define (git-file-name name version)
--
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