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authorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>2016-02-24 13:48:11 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-02-25 10:52:32 -0800
commit638fa623d5b5fb392a062edf61ccf086d35ab26b (patch)
tree84302c056b5ea59b7e0dd1079b8dc1d14b869ab5 /builtin/config.c
parentGit 2.7.2 (diff)
downloadtgif-638fa623d5b5fb392a062edf61ccf086d35ab26b.tar.xz
git config: report when trying to modify a non-existing repo config
It is a pilot error to call `git config section.key value` outside of any Git worktree. The message error: could not lock config file .git/config: No such file or directory is not very helpful in that situation, though. Let's print a helpful message instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/config.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index adc772786a..78aab956ad 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ static int get_colorbool(const char *var, int print)
static void check_write(void)
{
+ if (!given_config_source.file && !startup_info->have_repository)
+ die("not in a git directory");
+
if (given_config_source.use_stdin)
die("writing to stdin is not supported");