From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:13:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910222011200.21460@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v63a7f4ka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like
> > advice.describeHints?
> 
> Concurred.  Please make it so.

I don't have a strong opinion either ways, but is having a less verbose 
message in the _error_ path really a big issue?


Nicolas