From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Improve error message for git-filter-branch
Message-ID: <43d8ce650902190619u149b4619k3f9e08bc1e5869f8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200902190736.35364.johnflux@gmail.com>

2009/2/19 John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>:
> Tell the user that a backup (original) already exists, and how to solve
> this problem (with -f option)


"Oh, and also all are:
Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>"

> ---
>  git-filter-branch.sh |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
> index 27b57b8..1ca45e2 100755
> --- a/git-filter-branch.sh
> +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
> @@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ while read sha1 type name
>  do
>        case "$force,$name" in
>        ,$orig_namespace*)
> -               die "Namespace $orig_namespace not empty"
> +               die "Cannot backup - a previous backup already exists in $orig_namespace\n" \
> +                   "Force overwriting the backup with -f"
>        ;;
>        t,$orig_namespace*)
>                git update-ref -d "$name" $sha1
> --
> 1.6.2.rc1.3.g7d31b.dirty
>
>
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