ref-filter: truncate atom names in error messages

If you pass a bogus argument to %(refname), you may end up with a
message like this:

  $ git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:foo)'
  fatal: unrecognized %(refname:foo) argument: foo

which is confusing. It should just say:

  fatal: unrecognized %(refname) argument: foo

which is clearer, and is consistent with most other atom parsers. Those
other parsers do not have the same problem because they pass the atom
name from a string literal in the parser function. But because the
parser for %(refname) also handles %(upstream) and %(push), it instead
uses atom->name, which includes the arguments. The oid atom parser which
handles %(tree), %(parent), etc suffers from the same problem.

It seems like the cleanest fix would be for atom->name to be _just_ the
name, since there's already a separate "args" field. But since that
field is also used for other things, we can't change it easily (e.g.,
it's how we find things in the used_atoms array, and clearly %(refname)
and %(refname:short) are not the same thing).

Instead, we'll teach our error_bad_arg() function to stop at the first
":". This is a little hacky, as we're effectively re-parsing the name,
but the format is simple enough to do this as a one-liner, and this
localizes the change to the error-reporting code.

We'll give the same treatment to err_no_arg(). None of its callers use
this atom->name trick, but it's worth future-proofing it while we're
here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh b/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh
index 010ba5a2cb..2ae1fc721b 100755
--- a/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh
+++ b/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh
@@ -1254,6 +1254,12 @@ test_expect_success 'subject atom rejects unknown arguments' '
 	test_cmp expect err
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'refname atom rejects unknown arguments' '
+	test_must_fail git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:foo)" 2>err &&
+	echo "fatal: unrecognized %(refname) argument: foo" >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect err
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'trailer parsing not fooled by --- line' '
 	git commit --allow-empty -F - <<-\EOF &&
 	this is the subject