From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:13:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910222011200.21460@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63a7f4ka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like
> > advice.describeHints?
>
> Concurred. Please make it so.
I don't have a strong opinion either ways, but is having a less verbose
message in the _error_ path really a big issue?
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 14:47 git describe is failing Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 14:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-22 15:02 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 15:10 ` Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 15:44 ` [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 16:40 ` Alex Riesen
2009-10-22 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23 0:13 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2009-10-23 0:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23 8:34 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-23 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-28 22:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
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