Jeff King writes:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:38:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> The patch was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek tangent that is a vast
>> improvement for cases where we absolutely need to use mmap but does
>> not help the OP at all ;-) I do not think there is any need for th
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:38:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The patch was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek tangent that is a vast
> improvement for cases where we absolutely need to use mmap but does
> not help the OP at all ;-) I do not think there is any need for the
> config reader to read
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:24:47PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> What is our thinking for after-fact recovery attempts?
> Like we try the mmap first, if that fails we just use open to get the
> contents of
> the file. And when open fails, we can still print a nice error message?
For config, I thi
Jeff King writes:
>> -die_errno("Out of memory? mmap failed");
>> +die_errno("mmap failed");
>
> This is definitely an improvement, but the real failing of that error
> message is that it does not tell us that "~/.gitconfig" is the culprit.
> I don't think
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:30:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jorge writes:
>>
>> > If you have a folder named ~/.gitconfig instead of a file with that
>> > name, when you try to run some global config editing command it will
>> > fail wi
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:30:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jorge writes:
>
> > If you have a folder named ~/.gitconfig instead of a file with that
> > name, when you try to run some global config editing command it will
> > fail with a wrong error message:
> >
> > "fatal: Out of memor
Jorge writes:
> If you have a folder named ~/.gitconfig instead of a file with that
> name, when you try to run some global config editing command it will
> fail with a wrong error message:
>
> "fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device"
That indeed is a funny error message.
How abo
If you have a folder named ~/.gitconfig instead of a file with that
name, when you try to run some global config editing command it will
fail with a wrong error message:
"fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device"
You can reproduce it:
$rm ~/.gitconfig
$mkdir ~/.gitconfig
$ls -l
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