[Patch] Minor corrections to help & error messages

[Patch] Minor corrections to help & error messages

[Richard Hartmann]

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Hi all,

the two patches should be so obvious, there is not much
need to explain them.

I noticed that quite a few options in the manpages are
not in alphabetical order. Would a patch which fixes
all of those be accepted?


Richard

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From 59b291d79cdcdb5fe235202cb45705dd4f8f352d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:28:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make help entries alphabetical

Switched the order. If there is a need for more changes, I can do them later.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hartmann <richih@net.in.tum.de>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 21ea165..52786c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -601,10 +601,6 @@ diff.autorefreshindex::
 	affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
 	'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'.
 
-diff.suppress-blank-empty::
-	A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
-	before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
-
 diff.external::
 	If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
 	performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
@@ -639,6 +635,10 @@ diff.renames::
 	will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
 	"copy", it will detect copies, as well.
 
+diff.suppress-blank-empty::
+	A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
+	before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
+
 fetch.unpackLimit::
 	If the number of objects fetched over the git native
 	transfer is below this
-- 
1.5.6.5


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From bc332cec43d1a389786c36ee893a0a1d09b112bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:17:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Always show which directory is not a git repository

Unify all

  fatal: Not a git repository

error messages so they include path information.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hartmann <richih@net.in.tum.de>
---
 contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir |    2 +-
 perl/Git.pm                     |    4 ++--
 setup.c                         |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
index 7959eab..993cacf 100755
--- a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
+++ b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ branch=$3
 # want to make sure that what is pointed to has a .git directory ...
 git_dir=$(cd "$orig_git" 2>/dev/null &&
   git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null) ||
-  die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!"
+  die "Not a git repository: \"$orig_git\""
 
 case "$git_dir" in
 .git)
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index dde9105..8392a68 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -204,14 +204,14 @@ sub repository {
 
 			unless (-d "$dir/refs" and -d "$dir/objects" and -e "$dir/HEAD") {
 				# Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
-				throw Error::Simple('fatal: Not a git repository');
+				throw Error::Simple("fatal: Not a git repository: $dir");
 			}
 			my $search = Git->repository(Repository => $dir);
 			try {
 				$search->command('symbolic-ref', 'HEAD');
 			} catch Git::Error::Command with {
 				# Mimick git-rev-parse --git-dir error message:
-				throw Error::Simple('fatal: Not a git repository');
+				throw Error::Simple("fatal: Not a git repository: $dir");
 			}
 
 			$opts{Repository} = abs_path($dir);
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 833ced2..6b277b6 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 				*nongit_ok = 1;
 				return NULL;
 			}
-			die("Not a git repository");
+			die("Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): %s", DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
 		}
 		if (chdir(".."))
 			die("Cannot change to %s/..: %s", cwd, strerror(errno));
-- 
1.5.6.5