Re: [PATCH] checkout: quote invalid treeish in error message

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> We received a report that invoking "git restore -source my_base_branch"
> resulted in the confusing error message "fatal: could not resolve
> ource".  This looked like a typo in our error message, but it is
> actually because "-source" is missing its second dash and is being
> resolved as "-s ource".  However, due to the lack of the quoting
> recommended in CodingGuidelines, this is confusing to the reader and
> we can do better.
>
> Add the necessary quoting to this message.  With this change, we now get
> this less confusing message:
>
>     fatal: could not resolve 'ource'
>
> Reported-by: Zhelyo Zhelev <zhelyo@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
> ---
>  builtin/checkout.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Obviously the right thing to do.  Thanks.

>
> diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> index 66b69df6e6..261699e2f5 100644
> --- a/builtin/checkout.c
> +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
> @@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ static int checkout_main(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
>  		struct object_id rev;
>  
>  		if (repo_get_oid_mb(the_repository, opts->from_treeish, &rev))
> -			die(_("could not resolve %s"), opts->from_treeish);
> +			die(_("could not resolve '%s'"), opts->from_treeish);
>  
>  		setup_new_branch_info_and_source_tree(&new_branch_info,
>  						      opts, &rev,