From c083b53c4f59bd243cdd5c25fd63f2eeeab194cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrien Delorme <azr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:12:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] packer fix: state that the command does not work for hcl
 files (#11238)

---
 command/fix.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/command/fix.go b/command/fix.go
index 33e2a970e..db5f62fc4 100644
--- a/command/fix.go
+++ b/command/fix.go
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ func (c *FixCommand) ParseArgs(args []string) (*FixArgs, int) {
 }
 
 func (c *FixCommand) RunContext(ctx context.Context, cla *FixArgs) int {
+	if hcl2, _ := isHCLLoaded(cla.Path); hcl2 {
+		c.Ui.Error("packer fix only works with JSON files for now.")
+		return 1
+	}
 	// Read the file for decoding
 	tplF, err := os.Open(cla.Path)
 	if err != nil {