Re: Please, paint new branch errors in RED (or any visible color)

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 10, 2021, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <211210.86r1akbes8.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJrA3nLUG_m1ftdAyzFBkmL3m1vMPuv5dd3bYVVOmXV-fThwnA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 10 2021, Jose Wielandt wrote:

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> Hi community,
>
> At my work we've been struggling a lot with not realizing that our new
> branch creation actually failed, ending up with a push directly to
> develop. What are those cases?
>
> $ git checkout -b feature/solve p-eq-np
> fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'feature/solve' at the
> same time.
>
> What's my proposal?
>
> $ git checkout -b feature/solve p-eq-np
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> FATAL: CANNOT UPDATE PATHS AND SWITCH TO BRANCH 'feature/solve' AT THE SAME TIME
>
>                  YOU STILL IN THE SAME BRANCH ! ! ! !
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> ***(but in bright RED)***
>
>
> Another case!
>
> $ git branch feature/solve p-eq-np
> fatal: Not a valid object name: 'p-eq-np'.
>
> I'll let that one to your imagination but please, make it appear in
> red so we can easily (visually) realize that something went wrong.
>
>
> This has been the third time in a month we accidentally pushed changes
> to develop bc we didn't realize that the command failed.

I think if we'd improve the output we'd probably add some "advice" output, i.e. "hint:" lines, not ALL CAPS.

But have you tried to see if the "git switch" command has the same UX caveats? It was meant to address some of these tricky/unexpected issues in 'checkout'.