On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > To be truly useful, the sequencer should never die() but always return > an error. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c > @@ -303,7 +303,8 @@ static int do_recursive_merge(struct commit *base, struct commit *next, > if (active_cache_changed && > write_locked_index(&the_index, &index_lock, COMMIT_LOCK)) > /* TRANSLATORS: %s will be "revert" or "cherry-pick" */ > - die(_("%s: Unable to write new index file"), action_name(opts)); > + return error(_("%s: Unable to write new index file"), > + action_name(opts)); Does this need to rollback the lockfile before returning? A cursory scan of read-cache.c:do_write_locked_index() seems to indicate that lockfile disposition is not handled automatically in case of error (unless I'm misreading). > rollback_lock_file(&index_lock); > > if (opts->signoff) -- 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