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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:16:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1002150616h6a747f58q41eecf84dac736fb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260180650-613-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Heya,

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:10, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> The previous error message was the same in many situations (unknown
> revision or path not in the working tree). We try to help the user as
> much as possible to understand the error, especially with the
> sha1:filename notation. In this case, we say whether the sha1 or the
> filename is problematic, and diagnose the confusion between
> relative-to-root and relative-to-$PWD confusion precisely.

Thank you, I just got helped by your patch, and was very pleasantly
surprised to see git being so unusually helpful! We'll make a
user-friendly scm out of git yet :).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-15 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-02 20:01 [PATCH v2] Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails y
2009-12-03 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-06 18:28   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-12-06 18:45     ` Matthieu Moy
2009-12-07  0:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-07  7:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-07 10:07       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-12-07 10:10         ` [PATCH v3] " Matthieu Moy
2010-02-15 14:16           ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]

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