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[PATCH 1/3] clone: drop extra newline from warning message

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 6, 2022, 08:00 UTC
Message-ID
<YsVBDK0CNLfWMgEG@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
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We don't need to put a "\n" in calls to warning(), since it adds one itself (and the user sees an extra blank line). Drop it, and while we're here, drop the full-stop from the message, which goes against our guidelines.

This bug dates all the way back to 8434c2f1af (Build in clone, 2008-04-27), but presumably nobody noticed because it's hard to trigger: you have to clone a repository whose HEAD is unborn, but which is not otherwise empty.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/clone.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index 89a91b0017..f596cedcf1 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ static int checkout(int submodule_progress, int filter_submodules)
 	head = resolve_refdup("HEAD", RESOLVE_REF_READING, &oid, NULL);
 	if (!head) {
 		warning(_("remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, "
-			  "unable to checkout.\n"));
+			  "unable to checkout"));
 		return 0;
 	}
 	if (!strcmp(head, "HEAD")) {
-- 
2.37.0.408.g2817302ee7
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  1. 0/3 cloning unborn HEAD when other branches are presentJeff King, Jul 6, 2022
  2. 1/3 clone: drop extra newline from warning messageJeff King, Jul 6, 2022
  3. 2/3 clone: factor out unborn head setup into its own functionJeff King, Jul 6, 2022
  4. 3/3 clone: propagate empty remote HEAD even with other branchesJeff King, Jul 6, 2022
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2022
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2022
  7. Jeff KingJul 7, 2022
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2022
  9. 0/3 cloning unborn HEAD when other branches are presentJeff King, Jul 7, 2022
  10. 1/3 clone: drop extra newline from warning messageJeff King, Jul 7, 2022
  11. 2/3 clone: propagate empty remote HEAD even with other branchesJeff King, Jul 7, 2022
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2022
  13. Jeff KingJul 8, 2022
  14. 3/3 clone: use remote branch if it matches default HEADJeff King, Jul 7, 2022
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2022
  16. Jeff KingJul 8, 2022
  17. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2022
  18. 4/3 clone: move unborn head creation to update_head()Jeff King, Jul 11, 2022
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2022
  20. Jeff KingJul 7, 2022
  21. Jonathan TanJul 6, 2022

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