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Diffstat (limited to 'pathspec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | pathspec.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c index 7f88f1c02b..bb1efe1f39 100644 --- a/pathspec.c +++ b/pathspec.c @@ -467,7 +467,12 @@ static void init_pathspec_item(struct pathspec_item *item, unsigned flags, match = prefix_path_gently(prefix, prefixlen, &prefixlen, copyfrom); if (!match) { - const char *hint_path = get_git_work_tree(); + const char *hint_path; + + if (!have_git_dir()) + die(_("'%s' is outside the directory tree"), + copyfrom); + hint_path = get_git_work_tree(); if (!hint_path) hint_path = get_git_dir(); die(_("%s: '%s' is outside repository at '%s'"), elt, |