From: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:56:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git annoyances
Message-ID: <b8bf37780804091656s2f24ebe5h758884e63cea4845@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxtu3fku.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

>  > but it was a PITA and all of git's messages about the problem were not
>  > only unhelpful, they confused me into looking for problems where there
>  > were none IMO.
>
>  Yes, we need to teach "git" to do more mind-reading (I am not being
>  sarcastic).  There should be a pattern in common user errors that share
>  their roots to the same user misperception, and if we can identify that,
>  maybe we can make git guess what the user was really trying to do and give
>  better error messages than it currently does.

Something along the lines of:

Error description
Why it happened
How to solve/Sugestion

-- 
[]s,
André Goddard