Re: [PATCH v2] bisect reset: Allow resetting to any commit, not just a branch

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Christian Couder wrote:
> > +       1) git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$1^{commit}" > /dev/null ||
> > +               die "'$1' does not seem to point to a valid commit"
> >
> > It would give a better error message when "git rev-parse" fails instead
> > of:
> >
> > fatal: Needed a single revision
> >
> > and it would not print the SHA1 from "$1^{commit}" when "git rev-parse"
> > succeeds.
>
> Oh, oops, I somehow lost the > /dev/null in my version.
>
> But as for the ‘git rev-parse’ error being confusing, why don’t we fix
> ‘git rev-parse’ instead?

It's a plumbing command, and the output of plumbing commands is not supposed 
to change a lot as some scripts may rely on it.

And anyway that would be in another patch.

Best regards,
Christian.