On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:59:17PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > After being away for a while I saw the following message in one of my git repos: > > $ git status > On branch yves/xxx > Your branch is based on 'origin/yves/xxx', but the upstream is gone. > (use "git branch --unset-upstream" to fixup) > > nothing to commit, working tree clean > $ git branch --unset-upstream > fatal: could not unset 'branch.yves/simple_projection.merge' > > At this point my .git/config file was empty, and all of my config was lost. Here's the fix, along with some related cleanups. The actual bugfix is in the first patch, which I think should go to "maint". The rest are not as important, so could go to master (but would also be fine for maint, as there should be no user-visible changes). [1/7]: config: avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < len" pattern [2/7]: get-tar-commit-id: check write_in_full() return against 0 [3/7]: avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern [4/7]: convert less-trivial versions of "write_in_full() != len" [5/7]: pkt-line: check write_in_full() errors against "< 0" [6/7]: notes-merge: use ssize_t for write_in_full() return value [7/7]: config: flip return value of store_write_*() builtin/get-tar-commit-id.c | 3 +-- builtin/receive-pack.c | 2 +- builtin/rerere.c | 2 +- builtin/unpack-file.c | 2 +- config.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- diff.c | 2 +- entry.c | 5 +++-- fast-import.c | 2 +- http-backend.c | 4 ++-- ll-merge.c | 2 +- notes-merge.c | 2 +- pkt-line.c | 29 ++++++++++++++--------------- read-cache.c | 6 +++--- refs.c | 2 +- refs/files-backend.c | 10 +++++----- rerere.c | 2 +- shallow.c | 6 +++--- streaming.c | 2 +- t/helper/test-delta.c | 2 +- transport-helper.c | 5 ++--- wrapper.c | 2 +- 21 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) -Peff