Unless --no-validate is passed, send-email will invoke $repo->repo_path() in its search for a validate hook regardless of whether a Git repo is actually present. Teach send-email to first check for repo existence. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks for the notification. Here's a patch to fix that. --- git-send-email.perl | 32 +++++++++++++++++--------------- t/t9001-send-email.sh | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index f0417f64e..94c54dc5a 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1755,21 +1755,23 @@ sub unique_email_list { sub validate_patch { my $fn = shift; - my $validate_hook = catfile(catdir($repo->repo_path(), 'hooks'), - 'sendemail-validate'); - my $hook_error; - if (-x $validate_hook) { - my $target = abs_path($fn); - # The hook needs a correct cwd and GIT_DIR. - my $cwd_save = cwd(); - chdir($repo->wc_path() or $repo->repo_path()) - or die("chdir: $!"); - local $ENV{"GIT_DIR"} = $repo->repo_path(); - $hook_error = "rejected by sendemail-validate hook" - if system($validate_hook, $target); - chdir($cwd_save) or die("chdir: $!"); - } - return $hook_error if $hook_error; + if ($repo) { + my $validate_hook = catfile(catdir($repo->repo_path(), 'hooks'), + 'sendemail-validate'); + my $hook_error; + if (-x $validate_hook) { + my $target = abs_path($fn); + # The hook needs a correct cwd and GIT_DIR. + my $cwd_save = cwd(); + chdir($repo->wc_path() or $repo->repo_path()) + or die("chdir: $!"); + local $ENV{"GIT_DIR"} = $repo->repo_path(); + $hook_error = "rejected by sendemail-validate hook" + if system($validate_hook, $target); + chdir($cwd_save) or die("chdir: $!"); + } + return $hook_error if $hook_error; + } open(my $fh, '<', $fn) or die sprintf(__("unable to open %s: %s\n"), $fn, $!); diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh index 15128c755..d1e4e8ad1 100755 --- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh +++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh @@ -1953,4 +1953,12 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'invoke hook' ' ) ' +test_expect_success $PREREQ 'test that send-email works outside a repo' ' + nongit git send-email \ + --from="Example <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>" \ + --to=nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx \ + --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \ + "$(pwd)/0001-add-master.patch" +' + test_done -- 2.13.0.506.g27d5fe0cd-goog