From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>,
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/26] update-ref --stdin: Simplify error messages for missing oldvalues
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:12:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531DF26E.50806@kitware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531DF195.7020304@kitware.com>
On 03/10/2014 01:08 PM, Brad King wrote:
>> - die("update %s missing [<oldvalue>] NUL", update->ref_name);
>> + die("update %s missing <oldvalue>", update->ref_name);
>
> The reason for the original wording is that the <oldvalue> is indeed
> optional. This can only occur at end-of-input, and it is actually the
> *NUL* that is missing because an empty old value can be specified to
> mean that it it intentionally missing.
I see a following patch makes the wording even clearer about
unexpected end of input, so ignore my previous review.
-Brad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-10 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-10 12:46 [PATCH 00/26] Clean up update-refs --stdin and implement ref_transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 01/26] t1400: Fix name and expected result of one test Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 02/26] t1400: Provide sensible input to the command Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 03/26] t1400: Pass a legitimate <newvalue> to update command Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 17:03 ` Brad King
2014-03-10 21:38 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-11 12:49 ` Brad King
2014-03-11 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11 21:41 ` Brad King
2014-03-20 17:01 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 04/26] parse_arg(): Really test that argument is properly terminated Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 05/26] t1400: Add some more tests involving quoted arguments Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 13:53 ` Johan Herland
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 06/26] refs.h: Rename the action_on_err constants Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 07/26] update_refs(): Fix constness Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 08/26] update-ref --stdin: Read the whole input at once Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 09/26] parse_cmd_verify(): Copy old_sha1 instead of evaluating <oldvalue> twice Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 10/26] update-ref.c: Extract a new function, parse_refname() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 11/26] update-ref --stdin: Improve error messages for invalid values Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 12/26] update-ref --stdin: Make error messages more consistent Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 13/26] update-ref --stdin: Simplify error messages for missing oldvalues Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 17:08 ` Brad King
2014-03-10 17:12 ` Brad King [this message]
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 14/26] update-ref.c: Extract a new function, parse_next_sha1() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 15/26] update-ref --stdin: Improve the error message for unexpected EOF Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 16/26] update-ref --stdin: Harmonize error messages Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 17/26] refs: Add a concept of a reference transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 18/26] update-ref --stdin: Reimplement using reference transactions Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 19/26] refs: Remove API function update_refs() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 20/26] struct ref_update: Rename field "ref_name" to "refname" Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 21/26] struct ref_update: Store refname as a FLEX_ARRAY Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 22/26] commit_ref_transaction(): Introduce temporary variables Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 23/26] struct ref_update: Add a lock member Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 24/26] struct ref_update: Add type field Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 25/26] commit_ref_transaction(): Also free the ref_transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 12:46 ` [PATCH 26/26] commit_ref_transaction(): Work with transaction->updates in place Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 17:44 ` [PATCH 00/26] Clean up update-refs --stdin and implement ref_transaction Brad King
2014-03-10 21:46 ` Michael Haggerty
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