From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] setup: update error message to be more meaningful
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:17:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1501411669.10533.2.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy3r7jkbb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Sat, 2017-07-29 at 09:10 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > That's interesting. In that case, I'll go with the suggested statement,
> > happily!
>
> It is not interesting at all. It actually is disturbing that you
> had the notion that these are "valid" command lines.
>
Seems I've used a sloppy statement, sorry about that. I actually
thought these were valid because they "worked", no other reason.
> We perhaps need to somehow make sure new users won't be led to the
> misunderstanding. Improving our documentation is a good first step.
That's something I could help with.
--
Kaartic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-30 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-25 17:57 [PATCH/RFC] setup: update error message to be more meaningful Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-25 18:16 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-25 21:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-26 13:08 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-26 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-29 2:44 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-29 3:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-29 12:13 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-29 12:41 ` [PATCH] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-29 16:10 ` [PATCH/RFC] " Junio C Hamano
2017-07-30 10:47 ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2017-07-30 11:03 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-02 17:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-10-03 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-04 14:18 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
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