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| author | Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> | 2012-08-03 10:21:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-03 09:06:30 -0700 |
| commit | 4d4b573977833f887635be386b84681e73834b72 (patch) | |
| tree | c78a9ff689dfd8421fffa1faefb8f6148d2c4d70 /setup.c | |
| parent | 0e4c8822e98e27c3c63125570c8bcbf0a8fd34da (diff) | |
| download | git-4d4b573977833f887635be386b84681e73834b72.tar.gz | |
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
The previous "Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions" may sound
obvious for an old-time Unix user, but does not make it clear how to use
this '--'. In addition to mentionning this '--', give an idea of what the
new command should look like.
Ideally, we could provide cut-and-paste ready commands based on the
command that just failed, but we have no easy access to argv[] in this
place of the code.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'setup.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | setup.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, if (!diagnose_misspelt_rev) die("%s: no such path in the working tree.\n" - "Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.", + "Use 'git <command> -- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.", arg); /* * Saying "'(icase)foo' does not exist in the index" when the @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, /* ... or fall back the most general message. */ die("ambiguous argument '%s': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\n" - "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions", arg); + "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:\n" + "'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'", arg); } @@ -145,7 +146,8 @@ void verify_non_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg) if (!check_filename(prefix, arg)) return; die("ambiguous argument '%s': both revision and filename\n" - "Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions", arg); + "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:\n" + "'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'", arg); } /* |