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author | René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> | 2021-08-25 22:14:09 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-08-25 14:39:06 -0700 |
commit | a7439d0f9dd291e7cc9e6c2dda19cbfdf09b62ee (patch) | |
tree | 2f2d828781a62834225905d4a55cefd28902f33f /Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.5.txt | |
parent | Git 2.33 (diff) | |
download | tgif-a7439d0f9dd291e7cc9e6c2dda19cbfdf09b62ee.tar.xz |
xopen: explicitly report creation failures
If the flags O_CREAT and O_EXCL are both given then open(2) is supposed
to create the file and error out if it already exists. The error
message in that case looks like this:
fatal: could not open 'foo' for writing: File exists
Without further context this is confusing: Why should the existence of
the file pose a problem? Isn't that a requirement for writing to it?
Add a more specific error message for that case to tell the user that we
actually don't expect the file to preexist, so the example becomes:
fatal: unable to create 'foo': File exists
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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