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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nit: missing branch error message
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:09:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhdckfw40.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432A67C3.2010205@pobox.com> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:35:47 -0400")

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

>> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git checkout -f upstream
>> fatal: Needed a single revision
>
> Better error message would be "hey dummy, branch doesn't exist"

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-16 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-16  6:35 nit: missing branch error message Jeff Garzik
2005-09-16 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-09-19 17:06   ` Linus Torvalds

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