Re: [PATCH 2/5] describe: error if blob not found

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > If describe_blob() does not find the blob in question, it returns an
> > empty strbuf, and we print an empty line. This differs from
> > describe_commit(), which always either returns an answer or calls die()
> > itself. As the blob function was bolted onto the command afterwards, I
> > think its behavior is not intentional, and it is just a bug that it does
> > not report an error.
> 
> Yes, let's do so.  Silently succeeding without returning anything
> useful is not what we usually do in this system.