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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-04-25 10:00:03 +1000
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-04-24 22:22:29 -0700
commit3e1a70d925b46b9eac1ae523589298ddb6e295af (patch)
tree6e5a35a758df6fd90c0fde02d042107f8c19682b /rev-parse.c
parent34fd1c9ac5845d541e3196983df7f993e751b544 (diff)
downloadgit-3e1a70d925b46b9eac1ae523589298ddb6e295af.tar.gz
rev-parse: better error message for ambiguous arguments
Currently, if git-rev-parse encounters an argument that is neither a recognizable revision name nor the name of an existing file or directory, and it hasn't encountered a "--" argument, it prints an error message saying "No such file or directory". This can be confusing for users, including users of programs such as gitk that use git-rev-parse, who may then think that they can't ask about the history of files that no longer exist. This makes it print a better error message, one that points out the ambiguity and tells the user what to do to fix it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'rev-parse.c')
-rw-r--r--rev-parse.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/rev-parse.c b/rev-parse.c
index e956cd5ed5..7f66ae2db8 100644
--- a/rev-parse.c
+++ b/rev-parse.c
@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ static int show_file(const char *arg)
return 0;
}
+static void die_badfile(const char *arg)
+{
+ if (errno != ENOENT)
+ die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
+ die("'%s' is ambiguous - revision name or file/directory name?\n"
+ "Please put '--' before the list of filenames.", arg);
+}
+
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i, as_is = 0, verify = 0;
@@ -176,7 +184,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (as_is) {
if (show_file(arg) && as_is < 2)
if (lstat(arg, &st) < 0)
- die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
+ die_badfile(arg);
continue;
}
if (!strcmp(arg,"-n")) {
@@ -343,7 +351,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (verify)
die("Needed a single revision");
if (lstat(arg, &st) < 0)
- die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
+ die_badfile(arg);
}
show_default();
if (verify && revs_count != 1)