From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 01:59:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup: only die on invalid .git under RUN_SETUP
Message-ID: <xmqqfsw5rdsq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <87mtqet5aw.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I guess another easy alternative would be to issue a warning() in this
> case, which is a relatively light refactoring of passing an error
> message up from the relevant function(s) instead of having it die()
> directly.

I think the end users deserve a warning even when they are running
ls-remote or bugreport in such a corrupt repository-lookalike.  It
might be sufficient to make "git diff [--no-index]" safe enough.

Thanks.