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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2017-05-13 03:29:31 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-05-15 02:30:51 (GMT)
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config: complain about --local outside of a git repo
The "--local" option instructs git-config to read or modify the repository-level config. This doesn't make any sense if you're not actually in a repository. Older versions of Git would blindly try to read or write ".git/config". For reading, this would result in a quiet failure, since there was no config to read (and thus no matching config value). Writing would generally fail noisily, since ".git" was unlikely to exist. But since b1ef400ee (setup_git_env: avoid blind fall-back to ".git", 2016-10-20), we catch this in the call to git_pathdup() and die with an assertion. Dying is the right thing to do, but we should catch the problem early and give a more human-friendly error message. Note that even without --local, git-config will sometimes default to using local repository config (e.g., when writing). These cases are already protected by similar checks, and covered by a test in t1308. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index 3a554ad..7f6c25d 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -496,6 +496,9 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
usage_with_options(builtin_config_usage, builtin_config_options);
}
+ if (use_local_config && nongit)
+ die(_("--local can only be used inside a git repository"));
+
if (given_config_source.file &&
!strcmp(given_config_source.file, "-")) {
given_config_source.file = NULL;