var: Don't require to be in a git repository.

git var works fine even when not called in a git repository. So
don't require it.

This will make it possible to remove this pre-condition for some
other git commands as well.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/var.c b/var.c
index 0de0efa2aa..c20ac919bd 100644
--- a/var.c
+++ b/var.c
@@ -51,11 +51,12 @@ static int show_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	const char *val;
+	int nongit;
 	if (argc != 2) {
 		usage(var_usage);
 	}
 
-	setup_git_directory();
+	setup_git_directory_gently(&nongit);
 	val = NULL;
 
 	if (strcmp(argv[1], "-l") == 0) {