Re: [PATCH/RFC] setup: update error message to be more meaningful

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 30, 2017, 10:47 UTC
Message-ID: <1501411669.10533.2.camel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy3r7jkbb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Sat, 2017-07-29 at 09:10 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > That's interesting. In that case, I'll go with the suggested statement,
> > happily!
> 
> It is not interesting at all.  It actually is disturbing that you
> had the notion that these are "valid" command lines.
>

Seems I've used a sloppy statement, sorry about that. I actually thought these were valid because they "worked", no other reason.

> We perhaps need to somehow make sure new users won't be led to the
> misunderstanding.  Improving our documentation is a good first step.

That's something I could help with.

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Kaartic