[PATCH] git-config: print error message if the config file cannot be read

From

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>

Date

Oct 9, 2007, 12:51 UTC

Message-ID

<20071009125102.1305.qmail@054bd0fc8effa5.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

The problem was noticed by Joey Hess, reported through
 http://bugs.debian.org/445208

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 builtin-config.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-config.c b/builtin-config.c
index 1bb0ebb..750a403 100644
--- a/builtin-config.c
+++ b/builtin-config.c
@@ -235,8 +235,12 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		argv++;
 	}
 
-	if (show_all)
-		return git_config(show_all_config);
+	if (show_all) {
+		if (git_config(show_all_config) == -1)
+			die("unable to read config file %s: %s",
+			    getenv(CONFIG_ENVIRONMENT), strerror(errno));
+		return 0;
+	}
 	switch (argc) {
 	case 2:
 		return get_value(argv[1], NULL);

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1.5.3.4