change `git_config()` return value to void

Currently `git_config()` returns an integer signifying an error code.
During rewrites of the function most of the code was shifted to
`git_config_with_options()`. `git_config_with_options()` normally
returns positive values if its `config_source` parameter is set as NULL,
as most errors are fatal, and non-fatal potential errors are guarded
by "if" statements that are entered only when no error is possible.

Still a negative value can be returned in case of race condition between
`access_or_die()` & `git_config_from_file()`. Also, all callers of
`git_config()` ignore the return value except for one case in branch.c.

Change `git_config()` return value to void and make it die if it receives
a negative value from `git_config_with_options()`.

Original-patch-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 46e8aa86df..735767dd4a 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -161,10 +161,7 @@ int read_branch_desc(struct strbuf *buf, const char *branch_name)
 	strbuf_addf(&name, "branch.%s.description", branch_name);
 	cb.config_name = name.buf;
 	cb.value = NULL;
-	if (git_config(read_branch_desc_cb, &cb) < 0) {
-		strbuf_release(&name);
-		return -1;
-	}
+	git_config(read_branch_desc_cb, &cb);
 	if (cb.value)
 		strbuf_addstr(buf, cb.value);
 	strbuf_release(&name);