Instead of dying there, let the caller high up in the callchain notice the error and handle it (by dying, still). The only caller of save_head(), sequencer_pick_revisions() can already return errors, so its caller must be already prepared to handle error returns, and with this step, we make it notice an error return from this function. So this is a safe conversion to make save_head() callable from new callers that want it not to die, without changing the external behaviour of anything existing. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index eb9c473..7a1561e 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -852,18 +852,28 @@ static int create_seq_dir(void) return 0; } -static void save_head(const char *head) +static int save_head(const char *head) { static struct lock_file head_lock; struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT; int fd; - fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(&head_lock, git_path_head_file(), LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR); + fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(&head_lock, git_path_head_file(), 0); + if (fd < 0) { + rollback_lock_file(&head_lock); + return error_errno(_("Could not lock HEAD")); + } strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s\n", head); - if (write_in_full(fd, buf.buf, buf.len) < 0) - die_errno(_("Could not write to %s"), git_path_head_file()); - if (commit_lock_file(&head_lock) < 0) - die(_("Error wrapping up %s."), git_path_head_file()); + if (write_in_full(fd, buf.buf, buf.len) < 0) { + rollback_lock_file(&head_lock); + return error_errno(_("Could not write to %s"), + git_path_head_file()); + } + if (commit_lock_file(&head_lock) < 0) { + rollback_lock_file(&head_lock); + return error(_("Error wrapping up %s."), git_path_head_file()); + } + return 0; } static int reset_for_rollback(const unsigned char *sha1) @@ -1127,7 +1137,8 @@ int sequencer_pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts) return -1; if (get_sha1("HEAD", sha1) && (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)) return error(_("Can't revert as initial commit")); - save_head(sha1_to_hex(sha1)); + if (save_head(sha1_to_hex(sha1))) + return -1; save_opts(opts); return pick_commits(todo_list, opts); } -- 2.10.0.windows.1.10.g803177d