Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Looks good and I agree with Peff's analysis. Care to wrap it in a patch with a log message? Thanks. > > 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)