From: David Fries Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:06:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] (trivial) add helpful "use --soft" for bare reset Message-ID: <20110630190608.GB26701@spacedout.fries.net> In-Reply-To: <7vk4c3qlqa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Instead of, fatal: mixed reset is not allowed in a bare repository print, fatal: mixed reset is not allowed in a bare repository, see update-ref To tell the user what they can do, instead of just what they can't. Signed-off-by: David Fries --- builtin/reset.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c index 98bca04..d0d4d66 100644 --- a/builtin/reset.c +++ b/builtin/reset.c @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) setup_work_tree(); if (reset_type == MIXED && is_bare_repository()) - die(_("%s reset is not allowed in a bare repository"), + die(_("%s reset is not allowed in a bare repository, see update-ref"), _(reset_type_names[reset_type])); /* Soft reset does not touch the index file nor the working tree -- 1.7.2.3