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[PATCH] Better error message when we are unable to lock the index file

From: Fredrik Kuivinen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:36
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds



Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <redacted>

---

 builtin-update-index.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 24dca47..f8f5e10 100644
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const cha
 
 	newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock_file, get_index_file());
 	if (newfd < 0)
-		die("unable to create new cachefile");
+		die("unable to lock index file: %s", strerror(errno));
 
 	entries = read_cache();
 	if (entries < 0)
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