Re: nit: missing branch error message

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 17:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509191005040.9106@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhdckfw40.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> >> [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ git checkout -f upstream
> >> fatal: Needed a single revision
> >
> > Better error message would be "hey dummy, branch doesn't exist"
> 
> Thanks.

Hell no.

I'm pissed.

	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git checkout -b st-5481 0677b284b827fbac20961037982f2a6459a827a8
	hey dummy, branch '0677b284b827fbac20961037982f2a6459a827a8' doesn't exist.

This f*cking message needs to go! The old message may have been confused, but it was confused for a really good reason. The new message shows that you didn't understand what "git checkout" does.

		Linus