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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:26:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63a7f4ka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0910220940n78ddb774i30338147327b198a@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Riesen's message of "Thu\, 22 Oct 2009 18\:40\:33 +0200")

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like
> advice.describeHints?

Concurred.  Please make it so.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-22 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-22 14:47 git describe is failing Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 14:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-22 15:02 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 15:10   ` Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 15:44     ` [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 16:40       ` Alex Riesen
2009-10-22 22:26         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-10-23  0:13           ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-23  0:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  0:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  8:34         ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-23 18:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-28 22:10             ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast

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