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-rw-r--r--pathspec.c7
-rwxr-xr-xt/t7810-grep.sh27
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 7f88f1c02b..bb1efe1f39 100644
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -467,7 +467,12 @@ static void init_pathspec_item(struct pathspec_item *item, unsigned flags,
match = prefix_path_gently(prefix, prefixlen,
&prefixlen, copyfrom);
if (!match) {
- const char *hint_path = get_git_work_tree();
+ const char *hint_path;
+
+ if (!have_git_dir())
+ die(_("'%s' is outside the directory tree"),
+ copyfrom);
+ hint_path = get_git_work_tree();
if (!hint_path)
hint_path = get_git_dir();
die(_("%s: '%s' is outside repository at '%s'"), elt,
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index 39d6d713ec..84838c0fe1 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -1234,6 +1234,33 @@ test_expect_success 'outside of git repository with fallbackToNoIndex' '
)
'
+test_expect_success 'no repository with path outside $cwd' '
+ test_when_finished rm -fr non &&
+ rm -fr non &&
+ mkdir -p non/git/sub non/tig &&
+ (
+ GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(pwd)/non" &&
+ export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
+ cd non/git &&
+ test_expect_code 128 git grep --no-index search .. 2>error &&
+ grep "is outside the directory tree" error
+ ) &&
+ (
+ GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(pwd)/non" &&
+ export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
+ cd non/git &&
+ test_expect_code 128 git grep --no-index search ../tig 2>error &&
+ grep "is outside the directory tree" error
+ ) &&
+ (
+ GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$(pwd)/non" &&
+ export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES &&
+ cd non/git &&
+ test_expect_code 128 git grep --no-index search ../non 2>error &&
+ grep "no such path in the working tree" error
+ )
+'
+
test_expect_success 'inside git repository but with --no-index' '
rm -fr is &&
mkdir -p is/git/sub &&