cindex: --associate fails when no inboxes are given

This functionality still needs to be fleshed out, but we
definitely can't associate coderepos to inboxes if we don't have
any inboxes as candidates.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/CodeSearchIdx.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/CodeSearchIdx.pm
index 36d00aea..2d1d8b22 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/CodeSearchIdx.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/CodeSearchIdx.pm
@@ -930,9 +930,8 @@ sub init_associate_postfork ($) {
         require_progs('associate', join => \@JOIN);
         $QRY_STR = $self->{-opt}->{'associate-date-range'} // '1.year.ago..';
         substr($QRY_STR, 0, 0) = 'dt:';
-        scalar(@{$self->{git_dirs} //  []}) or die <<EOM;
-E: no coderepos to associate
-EOM
+        @{$self->{git_dirs} // []} or die "E: no coderepos to associate\n";
+        @IBX or die "E: no inboxes to associate\n";
         my $approx_git = PublicInbox::Git->new($self->{git_dirs}->[0]); # ugh
         $self->query_approxidate($approx_git, $QRY_STR); # in-place
         $TODO{associate} = PublicInbox::OnDestroy->new($$, \&associate, $self);