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From: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: junkio@cox.net
Subject: [PATCH] Better error message when we are unable to lock the index file
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:37:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060812073756.5442.5498.stgit@c165> (raw)




Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>

---

 builtin-update-index.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 24dca47..f8f5e10 100644
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const cha
 
 	newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock_file, get_index_file());
 	if (newfd < 0)
-		die("unable to create new cachefile");
+		die("unable to lock index file: %s", strerror(errno));
 
 	entries = read_cache();
 	if (entries < 0)

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-12  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-12  7:37 Fredrik Kuivinen [this message]
2006-08-12  8:03 ` [PATCH] Better error message when we are unable to lock the index file Junio C Hamano
2006-08-12  8:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-12 17:16     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-12 19:19   ` Fredrik Kuivinen

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