From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:25:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work
Message-ID: <7vljj3dkid.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <f1e86b9095d63c6541d0a8df6a1cf8eadfe247bb.1256226187.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> @@ -259,7 +260,14 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
>  			printf("%s\n", find_unique_abbrev(sha1, abbrev));
>  			return;
>  		}
> -		die("cannot describe '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
> +		if (unannotated_cnt)
> +			die("cannot describe '%s'"
> +			    " with only\nannotated tags. Try --tags.",

Did you mean UNannotated tags here?

> +			    sha1_to_hex(sha1));
> +		else
> +			die("cannot describe '%s'"
> +			    " with tags\nTry --always, or create some tags.",
> +			    sha1_to_hex(sha1));
>  	}
>  
>  	qsort(all_matches, match_cnt, sizeof(all_matches[0]), compare_pt);