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-rw-r--r--builtin-update-index.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 24dca47d8d..d2556f376b 100644
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -491,9 +491,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
/* We can't free this memory, it becomes part of a linked list parsed atexit() */
lock_file = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct lock_file));
- newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock_file, get_index_file());
- if (newfd < 0)
- die("unable to create new cachefile");
+ newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock_file, get_index_file(), 1);
entries = read_cache();
if (entries < 0)