i18n: simplify numeric error reporting

diff --git a/notes-merge.c b/notes-merge.c
index 1b58a14ebc30d47d942b868af1afdc8cc3195148..97fc42f64bcd7a46d4f7818b4ad96ee6622fbec1 100644 (file)
--- a/notes-merge.c
+++ b/notes-merge.c
@@ -298,12 +298,8 @@ static void write_buf_to_worktree(const unsigned char *obj,
        char *path = git_pathdup(NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE "/%s", sha1_to_hex(obj));
        if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(path))
                die_errno("unable to create directory for '%s'", path);
-       if (file_exists(path))
-               die("found existing file at '%s'", path);
 
-       fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT, 0666);
-       if (fd < 0)
-               die_errno("failed to open '%s'", path);
+       fd = xopen(path, O_WRONLY | O_EXCL | O_CREAT, 0666);
 
        while (size > 0) {
                long ret = write_in_full(fd, buf, size);