Re: [PATCH v10] setup: improve error diagnosis for invalid .git files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 23, 2026, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7bs3piz7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfr6soxjq.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I think MISSING is more appropriate than STAT_MISSING.  Our stat(2)
> call positively identified that the given path does not exist on the
> filesystem.

If you prefer to have STAT_ there, I do not mind too much. But at some point, we may want to drop _ERR in those two new "these are not errors" return values.

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