From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Fwd: Errors when diff'ing arbitrary upstream remotes are not intuitive if git pull --all hasn't been done Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:14:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20131025061459.GA23524@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20131025061407.GE11810@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Johan Herland , git@vger.kernel.org To: "yaneurabeya ." X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 25 08:15:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZafy-0007AS-Ui for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:15:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751512Ab3JYGPI (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:15:08 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:55347 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750861Ab3JYGPH (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:15:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 4143 invoked by uid 102); 25 Oct 2013 06:15:02 -0000 Received: from c-71-63-4-13.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (71.63.4.13) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:15:02 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:14:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131025061407.GE11810@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:14:07AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > Could this error message be improved for interactive commands by > > first checking to see whether or not the path starts with a remote, > > then recommend that the remote be pulled? > > That might be worth doing. We cannot definitely say the branch exists > without hitting the network (which we would not want to do in the > general case), but I think it is reasonable for git to give suggestions > (we could also give a "did you mean X..." for near-typos, as we do for > typo-ed commands like "git dif". > > If you do try it, please don't just check for the remote name, but > actually complete the right-hand side of the fetch refspec for each > remote. They are equivalent in the default config, but aren't > necessarily so (and there has been talk of adjusting the layout of > remote refspecs). I don't recall offhand what functions we have to help > you, but I believe Johan (cc'd) was working in this area recently and > might be able to say more. ...and of course I forgot to cc Johan in the original. -Peff