Re: [PATCH] Improve error message: not a valid branch name

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:09:20AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > Two possible improvements that are mutually incompatible would
> > be:
> >
> >  - refactor that part of the manual to be included in the pages
> >    for any and all commands that can take refname from the user;
> >    this is inpractical as almost all command would be affected.
> >
> >  - move that to more central place, say git(7), and everybody
> >    refer to that page;
> >
> > I'd personally prefer the latter, as "naming things" is such a
> > central thing for the use of the system (this applies to the
> > description of "SHA-1 expression" that we curently have in
> > git-rev-parse(1) as well) and it is better for users to have
> > understanding of such fundamental syntaxes and concepts before
> > even using any individual commands.
> 
> Wholeheartedly concur.

Sounds good to me too, but...

> Should I re-submit the patch to refer to git(7) instead?

... git(7) is pretty long, so finding the referred-to information in
that man page might take a while.  Would it be possible to put this in a
(section 7?) man page of its own?

--b.