From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:27:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: improve error message in config.c
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3~9^2~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e88d022af96312e64216bfec31bd6749277c335a;p=git.git

improve error message in config.c

Show errno if opening a lockfile fails.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 7a83c76f4..5d9072c1b 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ int git_config_set_multivar(const char* key, const char* value,
 	lock = xcalloc(sizeof(struct lock_file), 1);
 	fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock, config_filename, 0);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		error("could not lock config file %s", config_filename);
+		error("could not lock config file %s: %s", config_filename, strerror(errno));
 		free(store.key);
 		ret = -1;
 		goto out_free;