[PATCH v4 2/2] checkout: proper error message on 'git checkout foo bar --'

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

The previous code was detecting the presence of "--" by looking only at
argument 1. As a result, "git checkout foo bar --" was interpreted as an
ambiguous file/revision list, and errored out with:

error: pathspec 'foo' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'bar' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec '--' did not match any file(s) known to git.

This patch fixes it by walking through the argument list to find the
"--", and now complains about the number of references given.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Unchanged since v3.

 builtin/checkout.c            | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 t/t2010-checkout-ambiguous.sh |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 2003795..54f80bd 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -873,7 +873,9 @@ static int parse_branchname_arg(int argc, const char **argv,
 	int argcount = 0;
 	unsigned char branch_rev[20];
 	const char *arg;
-	int has_dash_dash;
+	int dash_dash_pos;
+	int has_dash_dash = 0;
+	int i;
 
 	/*
 	 * case 1: git checkout <ref> -- [<paths>]
@@ -917,11 +919,20 @@ static int parse_branchname_arg(int argc, const char **argv,
 	if (!argc)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!strcmp(argv[0], "--"))	/* case (2) */
-		return 1;
-
 	arg = argv[0];
-	has_dash_dash = (argc > 1) && !strcmp(argv[1], "--");
+	dash_dash_pos = -1;
+	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+		if (!strcmp(argv[i], "--")) {
+			dash_dash_pos = i;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	if (dash_dash_pos == 0)
+		return 1; /* case (2) */
+	else if (dash_dash_pos == 1)
+		has_dash_dash = 1; /* case (3) or (1) */
+	else if (dash_dash_pos >= 2)
+		die(_("only one reference expected, %d given."), dash_dash_pos);
 
 	if (!strcmp(arg, "-"))
 		arg = "@{-1}";
diff --git a/t/t2010-checkout-ambiguous.sh b/t/t2010-checkout-ambiguous.sh
index 7cc0a35..87bdf9c 100755
--- a/t/t2010-checkout-ambiguous.sh
+++ b/t/t2010-checkout-ambiguous.sh
@@ -47,4 +47,10 @@ test_expect_success 'disambiguate checking out from a tree-ish' '
 	git diff --exit-code --quiet
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'accurate error message with more than one ref' '
+	test_must_fail git checkout HEAD master -- 2>actual &&
+	grep 2 actual &&
+	test_i18ngrep "one reference expected, 2 given" actual
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.8.4.479.g0ed768e