read_gitfile_gently: use ssize_t to hold read result

Otherwise, a negative error return becomes a very large read
value. We catch this in practice because we compare the
expected and actual numbers of bytes (and you are not likely
to be reading (size_t)-1 bytes), but this makes the
correctness a little more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index dadc66659a..a975c8b103 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ const char *read_gitfile_gently(const char *path)
 	const char *slash;
 	struct stat st;
 	int fd;
-	size_t len;
+	ssize_t len;
 
 	if (stat(path, &st))
 		return NULL;