Without this truncation the error message printed only shows the cwd from the start of the search, not where it failed. Signed-off-by: Lars R. Damerow <lars@xxxxxxxxx> --- setup.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index 5716d90..f0b56b9 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -422,8 +422,10 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok) } die("Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): %s", DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); } - if (chdir("..")) + if (chdir("..")) { + cwd[offset] = '\0'; die_errno("Cannot change to '%s/..'", cwd); + } } inside_git_dir = 0; -- 1.6.5.2 -- 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