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* [PATCH] Fix confusing git-update-ref error message
@ 2005-11-10 19:55 Petr Baudis
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From: Petr Baudis @ 2005-11-10 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: git

When git-update-ref has hit the "Ref %s changed to %s" error, I just stare
at it, left puzzled. This patch attempts to reword that to a more useful
and less confusing error message.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---

 update-ref.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/update-ref.c b/update-ref.c
index 65dc3d6..d79dc52 100644
--- a/update-ref.c
+++ b/update-ref.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	if (oldval) {
 		if (memcmp(currsha1, oldsha1, 20))
-			die("Ref %s changed to %s", refname, sha1_to_hex(currsha1));
+			die("Ref %s is at %s but expected %s", refname, sha1_to_hex(currsha1), sha1_to_hex(oldsha1));
 		/* Nothing to do? */
 		if (!memcmp(oldsha1, sha1, 20))
 			exit(0);

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