From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Goddard_Rosa?=" Subject: Re: git annoyances Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:56:03 -0300 Message-ID: References: <20080409101428.GA2637@elte.hu> <7vfxtu3fku.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Ingo Molnar" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 10 01:56:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jjk9r-0002Lo-EO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:56:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752737AbYDIX4H convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:56:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752714AbYDIX4G (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:56:06 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.190]:47501 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752483AbYDIX4E convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:56:04 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 19so3598036fkr.5 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:56:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Syc5FhPRljc9KhAZ56hC5BIgLagu71i8NWFK+c2Y2eE=; b=STFbRVAoKQhM7NLxYBqVsr80C/MPT9JARGgfzdcLSEtt6ff7J4QBmYkQYDAFfqNlp7qSw0VHbW3bzm0qpSWKm322REYdJeo10ay5xI90Mv9QWi38lePqhrbgRak6mc5Asm/S8sFZ7bCB36HHMJKdmFrDHGmFuTo5VpgOpeT94oY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vPhxA5hjHOP/pS1HA3OKsaLCG8nOFtbljhvD2NUugcSV0GYGO7sNyUg3cZLTcaSaPJ3ozPgF1zQsflPsojBcjAFIJ9IRFzYqXINrnmEIsQa46aAI/o8zJcx3ohz/cC8Xce/fz2Ug6l/vRDXgI+AyRJRaHFOK3ScR8n1WFsefCEA= Received: by 10.78.175.8 with SMTP id x8mr994108hue.0.1207785363185; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.120.2 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:56:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vfxtu3fku.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > > but it was a PITA and all of git's messages about the problem were= not > > only unhelpful, they confused me into looking for problems where t= here > > were none IMO. > > Yes, we need to teach "git" to do more mind-reading (I am not being > sarcastic). There should be a pattern in common user errors that sh= are > their roots to the same user misperception, and if we can identify t= hat, > maybe we can make git guess what the user was really trying to do an= d give > better error messages than it currently does. Something along the lines of: Error description Why it happened How to solve/Sugestion --=20 []s, Andr=E9 Goddard