From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:06:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/18] revert: Don't implictly stomp pending sequencer operation Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110727143346.GD24785@elie> Hi, Jonathan Nieder writes: > Sure, if the advice is quiet (as it is in this case), I suppose there > is no need to guard it until someone using it complains. :) > > I mentioned advice configuration to emphasize that output from running > git with all "hint:" lines stripped out is supposed to be just as > sensible as with them, if I understand the purpose of the facility > correctly. Ah, I hadn't thought about this so deeply. Indeed a standalone "error: Could not create sequencer directory '.git/sequencer'." does not make much sense to the end user. Now fix so that the caller reports the error. Thanks. -- Ram