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    Better error message when we are unable to lock the index file · 40aaae88
    Junio C Hamano authored
    
    
    Most of the callers except the one in refs.c use the function to
    update the index file.  Among the index writers, everybody
    except write-tree dies if they cannot open it for writing.
    
    This gives the function an extra argument, to tell it to die
    when it cannot create a new file as the lockfile.
    
    The only caller that does not have to die is write-tree, because
    updating the index for the cache-tree part is optional and not
    being able to do so does not affect the correctness.  I think we
    do not have to be so careful and make the failure into die() the
    same way as other callers, but that would be a different patch.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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