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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] redundant error message
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:15:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131205191518.GB19039@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BtCi_QSMZXfnscQmRyjvgSV1fG6smAOoCSab_e2YATxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:07:31PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> $ git rev-parse foobar --
> foobar
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'foobar': unknown revision or path not in
> the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
> 
> I already put "--" there. So it should shut up.

I think it is more than just a bad error message; if we get that
message, it means we are following the wrong code path in interpreting
"foobar":

  $ >foobar
  $ git rev-parse foobar --
  foobar
  --
  fatal: bad flag '--' used after filename

That's not right. It looks like this isn't a new breakage, though.
v1.5.0 produces the same result.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-05 10:07 [BUG] redundant error message Duy Nguyen
2013-12-05 19:15 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-12-05 20:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05 20:03     ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 20:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05 21:00         ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 21:28           ` Jeff King
2013-12-05 21:44             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-06 21:12               ` [PATCH 0/2] rev-parse and "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 21:13                 ` [PATCH 1/2] rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 21:15                 ` [PATCH 2/2] rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename arguments Jeff King
2013-12-06 22:05                   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 22:05                     ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--" Jeff King
2013-12-06 23:34                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-06 22:07                     ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rev-parse: be more careful with munging arguments Jeff King
2013-12-07  0:04                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 21:33                       ` Eric Sunshine
2013-12-06 22:08                     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename arguments Jeff King
2013-12-06 23:25                     ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse and "--" Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-06 23:30                       ` Jeff King
2013-12-09 19:05                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-09 19:12                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 19:23                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 20:48                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-09 20:56                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-09 21:10                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-06  1:15             ` [BUG] redundant error message Duy Nguyen
2013-12-06 22:13               ` Jeff King

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