repository: don't error out if there is no version

git will assume the repository format version is 0 if the value is not
there. Do the same.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/repository.c b/src/repository.c
index c608fa0b8..49778d175 100644
--- a/src/repository.c
+++ b/src/repository.c
@@ -931,9 +931,14 @@ bool git_repository__reserved_names(
 
 static int check_repositoryformatversion(git_config *config)
 {
-	int version;
+	int version, error;
 
-	if (git_config_get_int32(&version, config, "core.repositoryformatversion") < 0)
+	error = git_config_get_int32(&version, config, "core.repositoryformatversion");
+	/* git ignores this if the config variable isn't there */
+	if (error == GIT_ENOTFOUND)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (error < 0)
 		return -1;
 
 	if (GIT_REPO_VERSION < version) {