Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> thanks thomas and stsp for reviewing!
> 
> I had another small tweak i'd like to commit before moving into more
> interesting diffs (dry run, error recovering, no final newline etc) that
> I forgot to include in previous mail, apologies.
> 
> The following moves some checks done in apply_patch early in recv_patch
> so that we bail out early in case of malformed patches and changes the
> error for mismatching paths from
> 
> 	% got patch < diff
> 	got: the paths mentioned in the patch are different.
> to
> 	% got patch < diff
> 	got: old file is "foo" and new "bar": paths are different
> 
> OK?

apologies for the non-applying diff.  it was meant to be applied on top
of the "check file status before applying a patch" diff I sent a few
days ago (and that's still pending ;-).  Anyway, here's another version
of the diff that applies on top of the current main branch.

diff ca6444c5b3830627626458222ef3f16852e3505f /home/op/w/got
blob - 64f2cb93558b933d2ffdcc0da7dedecf78d8ee52
file + include/got_error.h
--- include/got_error.h
+++ include/got_error.h
@@ -346,8 +346,7 @@ static const struct got_error {
 	{ GOT_ERR_PATCH_MALFORMED, "malformed patch" },
 	{ GOT_ERR_PATCH_TRUNCATED, "patch truncated" },
 	{ GOT_ERR_PATCH_DONT_APPLY, "patch doesn't apply" },
-	{ GOT_ERR_PATCH_PATHS_DIFFER, "the paths mentioned in the patch "
-	    "are different." },
+	{ GOT_ERR_PATCH_PATHS_DIFFER, "paths are different" },
 	{ GOT_ERR_NO_PATCH, "no patch found" },
 };
 
blob - 6cc85331d4129d6f7dfec267d04e16173c9608a6
file + lib/patch.c
--- lib/patch.c
+++ lib/patch.c
@@ -173,6 +173,17 @@ recv_patch(struct imsgbuf *ibuf, int *done, struct got
 		goto done;
 	}
 
+	if (p->old == NULL && p->new == NULL) {
+		err = got_error(GOT_ERR_PATCH_MALFORMED);
+		goto done;
+	}
+	if (p->old != NULL && p->new != NULL && strcmp(p->old, p->new)) {
+		err = got_error_fmt(GOT_ERR_PATCH_PATHS_DIFFER,
+		    "old file is \"%s\" and new \"%s\"",
+		    p->old, p->new);
+		goto done;
+	}
+
 	imsg_free(&imsg);
 
 	for (;;) {
@@ -396,9 +407,6 @@ apply_patch(struct got_worktree *worktree, struct got_
 
 	TAILQ_INIT(&paths);
 
-	if (p->old == NULL && p->new == NULL)
-		return got_error(GOT_ERR_PATCH_MALFORMED);
-
 	err = got_worktree_resolve_path(&path, worktree,
 	    p->new != NULL ? p->new : p->old);
 	if (err)
@@ -415,9 +423,6 @@ apply_patch(struct got_worktree *worktree, struct got_
 		err = got_worktree_schedule_delete(worktree, &paths,
 		    0, NULL, delete_cb, delete_arg, repo, 0, 0);
 		goto done;
-	} else if (p->old != NULL && strcmp(p->old, p->new)) {
-		err = got_error(GOT_ERR_PATCH_PATHS_DIFFER);
-		goto done;
 	}
 
 	if (asprintf(&template, "%s/got-patch",