It makes perfect sense for users to want to pre-create .notmuch,
e.g. to install hooks, so we should handle the case of a .notmuch
directory without an actual xapian database more gracefully.
---
 lib/open.cc              | 8 ++------
 test/T055-path-config.sh | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/open.cc b/lib/open.cc
index a91d22ef..54510eac 100644
--- a/lib/open.cc
+++ b/lib/open.cc
@@ -661,16 +661,12 @@ notmuch_database_create_with_config (const char 
*database_path,
 
        err = mkdir (notmuch_path, 0755);
        if (err) {
-           if (errno == EEXIST) {
-               status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_DATABASE_EXISTS;
-               talloc_free (notmuch);
-               notmuch = NULL;
-           } else {
+           if (errno != EEXIST) {
                IGNORE_RESULT (asprintf (&message, "Error: Cannot create 
directory %s: %s.\n",
                                         notmuch_path, strerror (errno)));
                status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR;
+               goto DONE;
            }
-           goto DONE;
        }
     }
 
diff --git a/test/T055-path-config.sh b/test/T055-path-config.sh
index 374aea3b..1df240dd 100755
--- a/test/T055-path-config.sh
+++ b/test/T055-path-config.sh
@@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ EOF
        *)
           backup_database
           test_begin_subtest ".notmuch without xapian/ handled gracefully 
($config)"
-          test_subtest_known_broken
           rm -r $XAPIAN_PATH
           test_expect_success "notmuch new"
           restore_database
-- 
2.34.1

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