From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Improve error message for git-filter-branch
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:36:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902190736.35364.johnflux@gmail.com> (raw)
Tell the user that a backup (original) already exists, and how to solve
this problem (with -f option)
---
git-filter-branch.sh | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 27b57b8..1ca45e2 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ while read sha1 type name
do
case "$force,$name" in
,$orig_namespace*)
- die "Namespace $orig_namespace not empty"
+ die "Cannot backup - a previous backup already exists in $orig_namespace\n" \
+ "Force overwriting the backup with -f"
;;
t,$orig_namespace*)
git update-ref -d "$name" $sha1
--
1.6.2.rc1.3.g7d31b.dirty
next reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-19 7:36 John Tapsell [this message]
2009-02-19 8:44 ` [PATCH 4/6] Improve error message for git-filter-branch Sverre Rabbelier
2009-02-19 14:19 ` John Tapsell
2009-02-19 15:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 15:13 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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