From: Alex Henrie Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:47 GMT Subject: [PATCH] blame: display a more helpful error message if the file was deleted Message-ID: <1450224047-25527-1-git-send-email-alexhenrie24@gmail.com> `git blame 22414770 generate-cmdlist.perl` currently results in: fatal: cannot stat path '22414770': No such file or directory This patch changes the error message to: fatal: ambiguous argument 'generate-cmdlist.perl': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git [...] -- [...]'" That way, the user knows to rewrite the command as `git blame 22414770 -- generate-cmdlist.perl`. Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie --- builtin/blame.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c index 1df13cf..f070272 100644 --- a/builtin/blame.c +++ b/builtin/blame.c @@ -2683,8 +2683,6 @@ parse_done: argv[argc - 1] = "--"; setup_work_tree(); - if (!file_exists(path)) - die_errno("cannot stat path '%s'", path); } revs.disable_stdin = 1; -- 2.6.4