The strings returned by git_path() are recycled after a while. So make a copy of the config filename rather than holding onto the return value from git_path(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This patch is an improvement by itself, and it also eases the merging to master of my fix for the incorrectly set config file executable bit [1]. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/259644 builtin/config.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c index 8cc2604..606a3c0 100644 --- a/builtin/config.c +++ b/builtin/config.c @@ -568,8 +568,8 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) } } else if (actions == ACTION_EDIT) { - const char *config_file = given_config_source.file ? - given_config_source.file : git_path("config"); + char *config_file; + check_argc(argc, 0, 0); if (!given_config_source.file && nongit) die("not in a git directory"); @@ -578,6 +578,8 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (given_config_source.blob) die("editing blobs is not supported"); git_config(git_default_config, NULL); + config_file = xstrdup(given_config_source.file ? + given_config_source.file : git_path("config")); if (use_global_config) { int fd = open(config_file, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0666); if (fd) { @@ -590,6 +592,7 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die_errno(_("cannot create configuration file %s"), config_file); } launch_editor(config_file, NULL, NULL); + free(config_file); } else if (actions == ACTION_SET) { int ret; -- 2.1.1 -- 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