From 3ed6d7e76f9e2936e2d27ceeee8984950ea900a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:23:43 +1000
Subject: build: nicer error msg when git ls-files fails

---
 buildtools/wafsamba/samba_dist.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'buildtools/wafsamba/samba_dist.py')

diff --git a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_dist.py b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_dist.py
index 87ea8ccbef..eacc7c0534 100644
--- a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_dist.py
+++ b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_dist.py
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ def dist():
             destdir = '.'
         absdir = os.path.join(srcdir, dir)
         git_cmd = [ env.GIT, 'ls-files', '--full-name', absdir ]
-        files = Utils.cmd_output(git_cmd).split()
+        try:
+            files = Utils.cmd_output(git_cmd).split()
+        except:
+            print('git command failed: %s' % ' '.join(git_cmd))
+            sys.exit(1)
         for f in files:
             abspath = os.path.join(srcdir, f)
             if dir != '.':
-- 
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