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Diffstat (limited to 'read-cache.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | read-cache.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 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); } |