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| author |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2017-05-12 23:29:31 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-05-15 11:30:51 +0900 |
| commit | 25cd291963e4b0fae0eabe7fe02be693702d79bb (patch) | |
| tree | e8a47ce8fd085a661ebad759af297ccb33d5f9f9 /builtin | |
| parent | setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG() (diff) | |
| download | tgif-25cd291963e4b0fae0eabe7fe02be693702d79bb.tar.xz | |
config: complain about --local outside of a git repo
The "--local" option instructs git-config to read or modify
the repository-level config. This doesn't make any sense if
you're not actually in a repository.
Older versions of Git would blindly try to read or write
".git/config". For reading, this would result in a quiet
failure, since there was no config to read (and thus no
matching config value). Writing would generally fail
noisily, since ".git" was unlikely to exist. But since
b1ef400ee (setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to ".git",
2016-10-20), we catch this in the call to git_pathdup() and
die with an assertion.
Dying is the right thing to do, but we should catch the
problem early and give a more human-friendly error message.
Note that even without --local, git-config will sometimes
default to using local repository config (e.g., when
writing). These cases are already protected by similar
checks, and covered by a test in t1308.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/config.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c index 3a554ad50c..7f6c25d4d9 100644 --- a/builtin/config.c +++ b/builtin/config.c @@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) usage_with_options(builtin_config_usage, builtin_config_options); } + if (use_local_config && nongit) + die(_("--local can only be used inside a git repository")); + if (given_config_source.file && !strcmp(given_config_source.file, "-")) { given_config_source.file = NULL; |