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Re: `git mv` has ambiguous error message for non-existing target

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 17, 2012, 19:35 UTC
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Patrick Lehner <lehner.patrick@gmx.de> writes:
> But just because mv's error essage isnt very good, does that mean git
> mv's error message mustn't be better?

Did I say the error message from 'mv' was not very good in the message you are responding to (by the way, this is why you should never top-post when you are responding to a message on this list)?

I meant to say that the message from 'mv' is good enough, so is the one given by 'git mv'.

I wouldn't reject a patch that updates our message to something more informative without looking at it, though.

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