Panic if libgit2 is not thread-aware

Go calling C is inherently multi-threaded. If libgit2 cannot handle
threading, then we're going to crash at some random point. Crash right
at the start so we know what's happening.
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Carlos Martín Nieto 2016-10-31 21:12:03 +01:00
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@ -124,6 +124,15 @@ func init() {
C.git_libgit2_init()
// Due to the multithreaded nature of Go and its interaction with
// calling C functions, we cannot work with a library that was not built
// with multi-threading support. The most likely outcome is a segfault
// or panic at an incomprehensible time, so let's make it easy by
// panicking right here.
if Features()&FeatureThreads == 0 {
panic("libgit2 was not built with threading support")
}
// This is not something we should be doing, as we may be
// stomping all over someone else's setup. The user should do
// this themselves or use some binding/wrapper which does it