Hi, Jeff King wrote: > This passes the test suite (after the adjustments in the > previous patches), but there's a risk of regression for any > cases where the fallback usually works fine but the code > isn't exercised by the test suite. So by itself, this > commit is a potential step backward, but lets us take two > steps forward once we've identified and fixed any such > instances. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > environment.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c > index cd5aa57..b1743e6 100644 > --- a/environment.c > +++ b/environment.c > @@ -164,8 +164,11 @@ static void setup_git_env(void) > const char *replace_ref_base; > > git_dir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT); > - if (!git_dir) > + if (!git_dir) { > + if (!startup_info->have_repository) > + die("BUG: setup_git_env called without repository"); > git_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT; > + } This trips reproducibly for git ls-remote https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git when run outside of a git repository. Backtrace: #0 setup_git_env () at environment.c:172 #1 get_git_dir () at environment.c:214 #2 get_helper at transport-helper.c:127 #3 get_refs_list (for_push=0) at transport-helper.c:1038 #4 transport_get_remote_refs at transport.c:1076 #5 cmd_ls_remote at builtin/ls-remote.c:97 transport-helper.c:127 is argv_array_pushf(&helper->env_array, "%s=%s", GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, get_git_dir()); That code is pretty clearly wrong. Should it be made conditional on have_git_dir(), like this? Thanks, Jonathan transport-helper.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c index 91aed35..e4fd982 100644 --- a/transport-helper.c +++ b/transport-helper.c @@ -124,8 +124,9 @@ static struct child_process *get_helper(struct transport *transport) helper->git_cmd = 0; helper->silent_exec_failure = 1; - argv_array_pushf(&helper->env_array, "%s=%s", GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, - get_git_dir()); + if (have_git_dir()) + argv_array_pushf(&helper->env_array, "%s=%s", + GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT, get_git_dir()); code = start_command(helper); if (code < 0 && errno == ENOENT) --