Instead of dying there, let the caller high up in the callchain notice the error and handle it (by dying, still). There are two call sites of read_and_refresh_cache(), one of which is pick_commits(), whose callers were already prepared to do the right thing given an "error" return from it by an earlier patch, so the conversion is safe. The other one, sequencer_pick_revisions() was also prepared to relay an error return back to its caller in all remaining cases in an earlier patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 7fd0f99..631b75d 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -640,18 +640,21 @@ static int prepare_revs(struct replay_opts *opts) return 0; } -static void read_and_refresh_cache(struct replay_opts *opts) +static int read_and_refresh_cache(struct replay_opts *opts) { static struct lock_file index_lock; int index_fd = hold_locked_index(&index_lock, 0); if (read_index_preload(&the_index, NULL) < 0) - die(_("git %s: failed to read the index"), action_name(opts)); + return error(_("git %s: failed to read the index"), + action_name(opts)); refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET|REFRESH_UNMERGED, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (the_index.cache_changed && index_fd >= 0) { if (write_locked_index(&the_index, &index_lock, COMMIT_LOCK)) - die(_("git %s: failed to refresh the index"), action_name(opts)); + return error(_("git %s: failed to refresh the index"), + action_name(opts)); } rollback_lock_file(&index_lock); + return 0; } static int format_todo(struct strbuf *buf, struct commit_list *todo_list, @@ -981,7 +984,8 @@ static int pick_commits(struct commit_list *todo_list, struct replay_opts *opts) if (opts->allow_ff) assert(!(opts->signoff || opts->no_commit || opts->record_origin || opts->edit)); - read_and_refresh_cache(opts); + if (read_and_refresh_cache(opts)) + return -1; for (cur = todo_list; cur; cur = cur->next) { save_todo(cur, opts); @@ -1045,7 +1049,8 @@ int sequencer_pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts) if (opts->subcommand == REPLAY_NONE) assert(opts->revs); - read_and_refresh_cache(opts); + if (read_and_refresh_cache(opts)) + return -1; /* * Decide what to do depending on the arguments; a fresh -- 2.10.0.windows.1.10.g803177d