On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:43:29PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote: > Before 7176a314 (index-pack: complain when --stdin is used outside of a > repo) index-pack silently created a non-existing target directory; now > the command refuses to work unless it's used against a valid repository. > That causes p5302 to fail, which relies on the former behavior. Fix it > by setting up the destinations for its performance tests using git init. Ah, right. Thanks for catching this. I think p5302 was wrong to rely on the old behavior, and your patch is the right fix. -Peff