From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#65763: Error opening a file from a Git working directory if Git is not installed Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:44:34 +0300 Message-ID: <831qfc4d7h.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30907"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 65763@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Pogonyshev Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 05 21:45:31 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbzO-0007lj-Gy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:45:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbyx-00016I-SC; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbyw-00014i-FO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbyw-0006FO-6S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbyw-0004ys-QH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:45:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 65763 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 65763-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B65763.169394309819105 (code B ref 65763); Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 65763) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Sep 2023 19:44:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59402 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbys-0004y5-Ir for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47724) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbyq-0004xp-4v for 65763@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdbyk-0006Dl-46; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:44:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Zz6DTFXMnpiTUehstQeETOQ4jfrSC6fOc0fzSqlgAXE=; b=Nvqz1bupYmTa M53kzCsU4dTdFAwJguSjhpTZYV5SUQWR/EICRccM6NHIJihZaxM8NkpXpOu9QoNeHpDefRsiXOuGO VhTCnRNcfmpPbEVqlCDmyyimxxzKGfIJ57Sl23/M8cQXFd2s1y5Wjva/anEawH+ND11gTPWhC7uut Z4Q72nCPod3mYOTWu4CZWoyLS3Nb2P6FbiDhe1SnxZPHcDj+UJLkjp7VGS41ld9sOpOJrbu4I0/d3 X++yTQzTEllsspWCV8qguyZThe6+UlyZbXMnzqZ3dBOSdy6cONFJ8VT6P2/uHbhd42/wgzsakfVNt 59cvre/AzbyHhZ9n2IVJ0g==; In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Pogonyshev on Tue, 5 Sep 2023 20:54:54 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:269396 Archived-At: > From: Paul Pogonyshev > Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 20:54:54 +0200 > > To reproduce: > > 1. Change current directory to a Git checkout (e.g. `~/git/emacs' or something). > 2. From the command line: > > $ emacs --batch --eval "(progn (setf vc-git-program \"git-is-not-installed\") (find-file-noselect > \"whatever\"))" > Error: (file-missing "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "git-is-not-installed") > > Expected: Emacs is able to open the file, Git must not be essential. Emacs does open the file; what you see is not an error, it's a message. The code which tries to invoke Git runs with-demoted-errors, so any error is converted to a simple message. If you try this variant of your command: $ emacs --batch --eval "(progn (setf vc-git-program \"git-is-not-installed\") (message \"%s\" (find-file-noselect \"README\")))" you will see: Error: (file-missing "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "git-is-not-installed") README That "README" at the end means that find-file-noselect did read the file into its buffer, and the error message is just a message. So if this somehow prevented you from doing something, please tell more, or maybe the recipe needs more steps?