Any other caller of 'repo_read_index' dies upon a negative return of
it, so grep should, too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/grep.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 6e7bc76785a..69f0743619f 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -488,7 +488,8 @@ static int grep_cache(struct grep_opt *opt, struct repository *repo,
strbuf_addstr(&name, repo->submodule_prefix);
}
- repo_read_index(repo);
+ if (repo_read_index(repo) < 0)
+ die("index file corrupt");
for (nr = 0; nr < repo->index->cache_nr; nr++) {
const struct cache_entry *ce = repo->index->cache[nr];
--
2.17.0.582.gccdcbd54c44.dirty
