Re: [PATCH] setup.c: use die_errno() when chdir() system call fails

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2026, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbjcjc3na.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260706183851.90517-1-gatlavishweshwarreddy26@gmail.com>

Gatla Vishweshwar Reddy <gatlavishweshwarreddy26@gmail.com> writes:

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>  setup.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

The changes are trivially correct, in that you call die_errno() immediately after seeing chdir() fail (which means there is no other potential failures that can contaminate errno---what your die_errno() will report cannot be anything but what we got from chdir()).

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> diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
> index b4652651df..e2e98d1126 100644
> --- a/setup.c
> +++ b/setup.c
> @@ -1954,13 +1954,13 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(struct repository *repo, int *nongit_ok)
>  		break;
>  	case GIT_DIR_DISCOVERED:
>  		if (dir.len < cwd.len && chdir(dir.buf))
> -			die(_("cannot change to '%s'"), dir.buf);
> +			die_errno(_("cannot change to '%s'"), dir.buf);
>  		prefix = setup_discovered_git_dir(repo, gitdir.buf, &cwd, dir.len,
>  						  &repo_fmt, nongit_ok);
>  		break;
>  	case GIT_DIR_BARE:
>  		if (dir.len < cwd.len && chdir(dir.buf))
> -			die(_("cannot change to '%s'"), dir.buf);
> +			die_errno(_("cannot change to '%s'"), dir.buf);
>  		prefix = setup_bare_git_dir(repo, &cwd, dir.len, &repo_fmt, nongit_ok);
>  		break;
>  	case GIT_DIR_HIT_CEILING: