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[PATCH] Replace the cryptic messages from "git stash show".

From
JXJing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date
Dec 15, 2007, 05:14 UTC
Message-ID
<20071215051425.GA9118@fawkes>
In-Reply-To
<7vir32xdn3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:34:40PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> I agree "git stash show" should not give cryptic error message, but I
> think you should do this only when the user did not explicitly say which
> stash to show (that is, we should still give error message if the user
> said "git stash show garbage").

Good point. Actually I found out that if there _are_ some stashes and an invalid name is given, the current behavior is still printing refs/stash, which I think is not quite right. So I also try to fix that while I'm at it.

Now "git stash show" will keep quiet and just exit if there are no stashes at all. "git stash show some-non-existent-stash" will always print a clear message indicating the case.

---
 git-stash.sh |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
index f16fd9c..40e93dd 100755
--- a/git-stash.sh
+++ b/git-stash.sh
@@ -116,13 +116,30 @@ show_stash () {
 	flags=$(git rev-parse --no-revs --flags "$@")
 	if test -z "$flags"
 	then
-		flags=--stat
+		diff_flags=--stat
+	else
+		diff_flags=$flags
+	fi
+	s=$(git rev-parse --revs-only --no-flags "$@")
+	if test -z "$s"
+	then
+		arguments=$@
+		if test "${flags}" = "${arguments}"
+		then
+			s=$(git rev-parse --revs-only --no-flags $ref_stash)
+			if test -z "$s"
+			then
+				return 0
+			fi
+		else
+			eval stash_name=\$$#
+			die "Can't find any stash with name $stash_name"
+		fi
 	fi
-	s=$(git rev-parse --revs-only --no-flags --default $ref_stash "$@")
 
 	w_commit=$(git rev-parse --verify "$s") &&
 	b_commit=$(git rev-parse --verify "$s^") &&
-	git diff $flags $b_commit $w_commit
+	git diff $diff_flags $b_commit $w_commit
 }
 
 apply_stash () {
-- 
1.5.4.rc0.8.gd381b
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  1. Makes 'git-stash show' stay quiet when there are no stashes.Jing Xue, Dec 14, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2007
  3. Replace the cryptic messages from "git stash show".Jing Xue, Dec 15, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2007
  5. Jing XueDec 15, 2007

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