Print a nicer error when failing to create the cache directory#2728
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Oops, #2684 already fixed half of this issue, I should have checked before opening it… @sobczal2, @cruessler, do you want to merge the cache half of this PR into the existing one, or just to merge this one and also credit @sobczal2? |
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I’ve rebased on top of the now-merged #2684, using the same |
Same as in 1d22485 for the config directory, when the cache directory fails to get created for whichever reason, we currently exit gitui with a pretty undescriptive error. Improves on gitui-org#2684. Fixes gitui-org#2652.
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…#2728) Same as in 1d22485 for the config directory, when the cache directory fails to get created for whichever reason, we currently exit gitui with a pretty undescriptive error. Improves on gitui-org#2684. Fixes gitui-org#2652.
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When the config or cache directories fail to get created for whichever reason, we currently exit gitui with a pretty undescriptive error.
This at least prints the relevant path so that the user can attempt to fix them.
Fixes #2652.
This Pull Request fixes/closes #2652.
It changes the following:
I followed the checklist:
make checkwithout errors