Re: What is 'git BRANCH'?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 30, 2008, 05:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20080730051453.GB4034@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0807291549y66c56fbah928a854f37573680@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:49:00AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Why does handle_internal_command not complain after the "	for (i = 0;
> i < ARRAY_SIZE(commands); i++) {" that no matching commands were
> found? Is that not an implicit assertion that would do well with being
> asserted here?

Because it is called from two places. In one, we _know_ that this must be internal, so we die right after. In the other, we try internal, then external, then alias. So we don't want to die. Grep for handle_internal_cmmand in git.c.

-Peff