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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] rebase: do not print lots of usage hints after an obvious error message
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:46:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E09CD16.2040800@viscovery.net> (raw)

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

When a non-existent branch was specified to be rebased, the complete
usage information is printed after the error message that carries the
relevant piece of information:

   $ git rebase master topci
   fatal: no such branch: topci
   usage: git rebase [-i] [options] [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>] [<branch>]
      or: git rebase [-i] [options] --onto <newbase> --root [<branch>]
      or: git-rebase [-i] --continue | --abort | --skip

   Available options are
   [30 lines of usage stripped]

The error message was introduced recently by 4ac5356c (rebase: give a
better error message for bogus branch, 2011-01-27), and the result was
acceptable because the usage text was just two lines. But 45e2acf3
(rebase: define options in OPTIONS_SPEC, 2011-02-28) made things worse
because the usage text is now 35 lines.

Just drop the usage information because it does not add value to the
error message.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 Note: git-sh-setup's die() does not print "fatal: ".

 git-rebase.sh |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index d7855ea..4761f28 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -441,8 +441,7 @@ case "$#" in
 	then
 		head_name="detached HEAD"
 	else
-		echo >&2 "fatal: no such branch: $1"
-		usage
+		die "fatal: no such branch: $1"
 	fi
 	;;
 *)
-- 
1.7.6.86.gdfda2

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-28 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 12:46 Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-06-28 15:54 ` [PATCH] rebase: do not print lots of usage hints after an obvious error message Jeff King

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