Re: index-pack outside of repository?

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 08:37:28PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>>>
>>>> But if this case really is just "if (from_stdin)" that's quite easy,
>>>> too.
>>>
>>> So here is that patch (with some associated refactoring and cleanups).
>>> This is conceptually independent of jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final,
>>> though it should be fine to merge with that topic. The BUG will actually
>>> pass the new test, because it calls die, too. I wonder if we should die
>>> with a unique error code on BUGs, and catch them in test_must_fail
>>> similar to the way we catch signal death.
>>>
>>>   [1/3]: t5000: extract nongit function to test-lib-functions.sh
>>>   [2/3]: index-pack: complain when --stdin is used outside of a repo
>>>   [3/3]: t: use nongit() function where applicable
>>
>> I think 2/3 is a good change to ensure we get a reasonable error for
>> "index-pack --stdin", and 3/3 is a very good cleanup.  Both of them
>> of course are enabled by 1/3.
>>
>> We still fail "nongit git index-pack tmp.pack" with a BUG: though.
>
> Wait.  
>
> This only happens with a stalled-and-to-be-discarded topic on 'pu'.
> Please don't waste time digging it (yet).