From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:05:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] t1507: add additional tests for @{upstream} Message-ID: <4F86003C.3080308@in.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: On 04/11/2012 07:59 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> We may want to update the error message for "@{u}" when the current one is >> not tracked, instead of saying ''. Perhaps >> >> error: No upstream branch found for the current branch. >> >> or something? >> >> Likewise for the detached HEAD case. > > This is indeed the point of the patch serie, and I like how it first > shows how bad the error messages can be, and then illustrate the fix > with patch hunks in the newly added testcases in further patches. > > But the commit message for this patch could probably be improved: we > usually do not give a list of _what_ is done, since the code already > says that, but we insist on _why_ it is done. Yeah, I need to provide a better motivation/description in reroll. Thanks for looking at this, Zbyszek