From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:50:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] builtin/branch: give more useful error messages when renaming
Message-ID: <2e91fd2e-3c8a-ff93-ff6f-4a30191d1249@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYMagCFS765NtOBDxDJYaXMyA4-=xxi3JMxbga638b6Yg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 21 September 2017 02:27 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> It's conventional to report that 'tset' doesn't exist rather than
>> reporting that 'master' exists, the same way the 'mv' command does.
>>
>>      $ git branch -m tset master
> This is not the 'mv' command as promised? So this is just
> to demonstrate the (still fictional) better error message?

Yes

> Maybe use a real 'mv' command here?

It didn't want to do that to avoid preserve continuity. I'll change the 
commit
message a little to fix this.

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Kaartic