diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index ef50243452c2f27572c941a5db9365c785f1fbd5..1a4200d151dd8e876c6f84531422cae50b049aa3 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
finish:
if (active_cache_changed) {
if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
- commit_lock_file(lock_file))
+ close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(lock_file))
die("Unable to write new index file");
}