Re: [PATCH] rerere: exit silently on "forget" when rerere is disabled

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:33:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:19:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> > It looks like we need to pay more attention to the return value of
> >> > setup_rerere, which is what is supposed to take the lock.
> >> 
> >> Good spotting.  The normal rerere does check, but rerere-forget
> >> codepath seems to forget it.
> >
> > Here's a patch.
> 
> Thanks.  This is obviously correct to fix your "init -q" one.
> 
> I am still puzzled by the original, though.  I assumed that rerere
> was enabled and working correctly (in the sense that it correctly
> replayed a mistaken resolution recorded earlier, which Alex wanted
> to correct by forgetting).

Yeah, agreed. I don't see any other code paths that could end up trying
to commit a lock we haven't taken, though.

Alex, can you tell us more about your repository? And possibly show us
the output of:

  ls -d .git/rr-cache
  git config rerere.enabled

in the repository?

-Peff