The low-level attribute and gitignore code will try to look in $GIT_DIR/info for any repo-level configuration files, even if we have not actually determined that we are in a repository (e.g., running "git grep --no-index"). In such a case they end up looking for ".git/info/attributes", etc. This is generally harmless, as such a file is unlikely to exist outside of a repository, but it's still conceptually the wrong thing to do. Let's detect this situation explicitly and skip reading the file (i.e., the same behavior we'd get if we were in a repository and the file did not exist). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- attr.c | 6 +++++- dir.c | 12 ++++++------ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c index eec5d7d..1fcf042 100644 --- a/attr.c +++ b/attr.c @@ -531,7 +531,11 @@ static void bootstrap_attr_stack(void) debug_push(elem); } - elem = read_attr_from_file(git_path_info_attributes(), 1); + if (startup_info->have_repository) + elem = read_attr_from_file(git_path_info_attributes(), 1); + else + elem = NULL; + if (!elem) elem = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*elem)); elem->origin = NULL; diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c index 3bad1ad..6cde773 100644 --- a/dir.c +++ b/dir.c @@ -2195,8 +2195,6 @@ static GIT_PATH_FUNC(git_path_info_exclude, "info/exclude") void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir) { - const char *path; - dir->exclude_per_dir = ".gitignore"; /* core.excludefile defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore */ @@ -2207,10 +2205,12 @@ void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir) dir->untracked ? &dir->ss_excludes_file : NULL); /* per repository user preference */ - path = git_path_info_exclude(); - if (!access_or_warn(path, R_OK, 0)) - add_excludes_from_file_1(dir, path, - dir->untracked ? &dir->ss_info_exclude : NULL); + if (startup_info->have_repository) { + const char *path = git_path_info_exclude(); + if (!access_or_warn(path, R_OK, 0)) + add_excludes_from_file_1(dir, path, + dir->untracked ? &dir->ss_info_exclude : NULL); + } } int remove_path(const char *name) -- 2.10.1.619.g16351a7