Provide a build time default-editor setting

[thirdparty/git.git] / builtin-describe.c

diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c
index 7a662980d102a275fceb8299bba0b84b41a8f9cb..eaa8a9d229c97ebaab9ee3aa09d2456f68cd172c 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-describe.c
+++ b/builtin-describe.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ static int tags;      /* Allow lightweight tags */
 static int longformat;
 static int abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV;
 static int max_candidates = 10;
+static int found_names;
 static const char *pattern;
 static int always;
 
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ static void add_to_known_names(const char *path,
                memcpy(e->path, path, len);
                commit->util = e;
        }
+       found_names = 1;
 }
 
 static int get_name(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void *cb_data)
@@ -178,7 +180,6 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
        unsigned char sha1[20];
        struct commit *cmit, *gave_up_on = NULL;
        struct commit_list *list;
-       static int initialized = 0;
        struct commit_name *n;
        struct possible_tag all_matches[MAX_TAGS];
        unsigned int match_cnt = 0, annotated_cnt = 0, cur_match;
@@ -190,11 +191,6 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
        if (!cmit)
                die("%s is not a valid '%s' object", arg, commit_type);
 
-       if (!initialized) {
-               initialized = 1;
-               for_each_ref(get_name, NULL);
-       }
-
        n = cmit->util;
        if (n) {
                /*
@@ -354,6 +350,10 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                return cmd_name_rev(i + argc, args, prefix);
        }
 
+       for_each_ref(get_name, NULL);
+       if (!found_names && !always)
+               die("No names found, cannot describe anything.");
+
        if (argc == 0) {
                describe("HEAD", 1);
        } else {