From: Fredrik Kuivinen Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:37:56 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Better error message when we are unable to lock the index file Message-ID: <20060812073756.5442.5498.stgit@c165> Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen --- builtin-update-index.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c index 24dca47..f8f5e10 100644 --- a/builtin-update-index.c +++ b/builtin-update-index.c @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const cha newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock_file, get_index_file()); if (newfd < 0) - die("unable to create new cachefile"); + die("unable to lock index file: %s", strerror(errno)); entries = read_cache(); if (entries < 0)