On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:22:19AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > And this might be a good follow-on: > > -- >8 -- > Subject: [PATCH] gitignore: report access errors of exclude files ...and it would probably help if I gave you the version that actually compiled. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] gitignore: report access errors of exclude files When we try to access gitignore files, we check for their existence with a call to "access". We silently ignore missing files. However, if a file is not readable, this may be a configuration error; let's warn the user. For $GIT_DIR/info/excludes or core.excludesfile, we can just use access_or_warn. However, for per-directory files we actually try to open them, so we must add a custom warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- dir.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c index 240bf0c..ea74048 100644 --- a/dir.c +++ b/dir.c @@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname, fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0 || fstat(fd, &st) < 0) { + if (errno != ENOENT) + warning(_("unable to access '%s': %s"), fname, strerror(errno)); if (0 <= fd) close(fd); if (!check_index || @@ -1311,9 +1313,9 @@ void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir) home_config_paths(NULL, &xdg_path, "ignore"); excludes_file = xdg_path; } - if (!access(path, R_OK)) + if (!access_or_warn(path, R_OK)) add_excludes_from_file(dir, path); - if (excludes_file && !access(excludes_file, R_OK)) + if (excludes_file && !access_or_warn(excludes_file, R_OK)) add_excludes_from_file(dir, excludes_file); } -- 1.7.12.4.g4e9f38f -- 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