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| -rw-r--r-- | read-cache.c | 5 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c index 3e0e7d4183..68ed65035b 100644 --- a/read-cache.c +++ b/read-cache.c @@ -2268,8 +2268,11 @@ int do_read_index(struct index_state *istate, const char *path, int must_exist) istate->timestamp.nsec = 0; fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { - if (!must_exist && errno == ENOENT) + if (!must_exist && errno == ENOENT) { + if (!istate->repo) + istate->repo = the_repository; return 0; + } die_errno(_("%s: index file open failed"), path); } diff --git a/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh b/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh index 9936cc329e..c1f0d95036 100755 --- a/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh +++ b/t/t7063-status-untracked-cache.sh @@ -985,4 +985,9 @@ test_expect_success '"status" after file replacement should be clean with UC=fal status_is_clean ' +test_expect_success 'empty repo (no index) and core.untrackedCache' ' + git init emptyrepo && + git -C emptyrepo -c core.untrackedCache=true write-tree +' + test_done |