When calling a git command from a subdirectory and a file locking fails, the user will get a path relative to the root of the worktree, which is invalid from the place where the command is ran. Make it easy for the user to know which file it is. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- I'm writting this because I just got the situation with students: - Sir, we broke our repository (git commit interrupted violently). - See, the error message tells you what to do. - But sir, where is .git/index.lock, we can't find it. This patch would have solved their problem. OTOH, an absolute path can be rather long and painfull to read/cut-and-paste. I've tried to show a path relative to where the command was ran (like "../../.git/index.lock"), but that's really a painfull to implement (one has to provide a prefix argument to all the calls to unable_to_lock_*, and even with this, I didn't find the simple way to make the relative path (probably exists somewhere in Git since 'git status' does this). Then I gave up :-(. lockfile.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lockfile.c b/lockfile.c index 6851fa5..e31cbc7 100644 --- a/lockfile.c +++ b/lockfile.c @@ -164,9 +164,10 @@ static char *unable_to_lock_message(const char *path, int err) "If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a\n" "git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git\n" "process is running and remove the file manually to continue.", - path, strerror(err)); + make_absolute_path(path), strerror(err)); } else - strbuf_addf(&buf, "Unable to create '%s.lock': %s", path, strerror(err)); + strbuf_addf(&buf, "Unable to create '%s.lock': %s", + make_absolute_path(path), strerror(err)); return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL); } -- 1.6.6.76.gd6b23.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html