From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:26:45 -0700 Message-ID: <7v63a7f4ka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <76c5b8580910220810n389d065di349339ab38909ef7@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0910220940n78ddb774i30338147327b198a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Rast , Eugene Sajine , git@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 23 00:27:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N167d-0000x9-II for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:27:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752665AbZJVW0y (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752001AbZJVW0y (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:54 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:59541 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751915AbZJVW0x (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:53 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123126368E; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:56 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=Jf2VEhG1I5r3hDB6X0FApc7xbIk=; b=nuzw+s IqSfvOuGzH1nqS95Xc5wBkGY6vzKZiCbvXmFGrplPbuaKsnPcMMulAlloGC455JW 3isC/JiXaHLw9unq/3ssxsmTrC0OknoA6T6mxEiCHS8mmXPJ7VY1kQEKX4bXk9+k dN0dA/GhOSP11g5x1JZDSu3cQ2pOAg9JU74cc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Deb4dkTdNZREmvinBcYRO5KlCKmkhwaa uWnoQFPTJYHuFwth8w2q+tViMAJ+CdPuw6O+E2mv1rNGfpSVHVFkUA9QKTkBZ+SR 1b/AuOPbVmW5biH3+CWNXFMZqPeGZUZt1pZ4ObxLCsN3xKWeWAL7dWP64SMLN132 Wio1xIssbAw= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C536368B; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0CF3863688; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0910220940n78ddb774i30338147327b198a@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Riesen's message of "Thu\, 22 Oct 2009 18\:40\:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FEF09EB4-BF59-11DE-93D2-1B12EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen writes: > These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like > advice.describeHints? Concurred. Please make it so.