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>
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@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ static int get_colorbool(const char *var, int print)
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static void check_write(void)
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{
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if (!given_config_source.file && !startup_info->have_repository)
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die("not in a git directory");
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if (given_config_source.use_stdin)
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die("writing to stdin is not supported");
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@ -218,4 +218,15 @@ test_expect_success 'check line errors for malformed values' '
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test_i18ngrep "fatal: .*alias\.br.*\.git/config.*line 2" result
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'
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test_expect_success 'error on modifying repo config without repo' '
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mkdir no-repo &&
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(
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GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=$(pwd) &&
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export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
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cd no-repo &&
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test_must_fail git config a.b c 2>err &&
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grep "not in a git directory" err
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)
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'
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test_done
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