The archive command does three things during its initialization phase: 1. parse command-line options 2. setup the git directory 3. read config During phase (1), if we see any options that do not require a git directory (like "--list"), we handle them immediately and exit, making it safe to abort step (2) if we are not in a git directory. Step (3) must come after step (2), since the git directory may influence configuration. However, this leaves no possibility of configuration from step (3) impacting the command-line options in step (1) (which is useful, for example, for supporting user-configurable output formats). Instead, let's reorder this to: 1. setup the git directory, if it exists 2. read config 3. parse command-line options 4. if we are not in a git repository, die This should have the same external behavior, but puts configuration before command-line parsing. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- archive.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c index 42f2d2f..2616676 100644 --- a/archive.c +++ b/archive.c @@ -387,17 +387,27 @@ static int parse_archive_args(int argc, const char **argv, int write_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, int setup_prefix) { + int nongit = 0; const struct archiver *ar = NULL; struct archiver_args args; - argc = parse_archive_args(argc, argv, &ar, &args); if (setup_prefix && prefix == NULL) - prefix = setup_git_directory(); + prefix = setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit); + + git_config(git_default_config, NULL); + + argc = parse_archive_args(argc, argv, &ar, &args); + if (nongit) { + /* + * We know this will die() with an error, so we could just + * die ourselves; but its error message will be more specific + * than what we could write here. + */ + setup_git_directory(); + } parse_treeish_arg(argv, &args, prefix); parse_pathspec_arg(argv + 1, &args); - git_config(git_default_config, NULL); - return ar->write_archive(&args); } -- 1.7.6.rc1.4.g49204 -- 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