From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: nit: missing branch error message Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:35:47 -0400 Message-ID: <432A67C3.2010205@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 16 08:37:16 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EG9pR-0005Rd-An for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:36:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161052AbVIPGfu (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:35:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161055AbVIPGfu (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:35:50 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:45532 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161052AbVIPGfu (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:35:50 -0400 Received: from cpe-069-134-188-146.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.188.146] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1EG9p7-0006No-Hq for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:35:49 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Git Mailing List X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Just tried accidentally to check out a non-existent branch: > [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git checkout -f upstream > fatal: Needed a single revision > [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ ls .git/refs/heads/ > adma chs-support master pata-drivers sil24-original vsc-mwi > adma-mwi iomap ncq promise-sata-pata sil-lbt > ALL iomap-step1 passthru sil24 upstream-fixes Better error message would be "hey dummy, branch doesn't exist" Jeff