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Re: [PATCH 2/2] sha1_name: fix error message for @{<N>}, @{<date>}

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
May 21, 2013, 18:09 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> More importantly, doesn't "real_ref" have the name of the branch?
>
> Suppose the user said "git show @{10000}" instead of "git show
> master@{10000}" while on 'master'.
My stupidity, sorry.
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> It could be argued that it may look nicer to say "your current
> branch does not have enough update history" instead of saying
> "master does not..." (i.e. different input to ask for the same
> thing, different output depending on the way the user asked).  It
> also could be argued that they should produce the same diagnosis
> that is more informative.

Yeah, I wanted to discuss this: the problem is that even something as low-level as rev-list will print this "pretty" error. It's certainly useful for porcelain. How do we achieve this? An extra "is-porcelain" argument?

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Message 15 of 19 in “Fix invalid revision error messages for 1.8.3”
  1. 0/2 Fix invalid revision error messages for 1.8.3Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 21, 2013
  2. 1/2 sha1_name: fix error message for @{u}Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 21, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  12. 2/2 sha1_name: fix error message for @{<N>}, @{<date>}Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 21, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  14. Kevin BraceyMay 21, 2013
  15. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 21, 2013

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