Re: [PATCH] clarify error message when an abbreviated non-existent commit was specified

> When running the command 'git branch --contains efabdfb' on a repository that doesn't yet have efabdfb, git reports: "malformed object name efabdfb". To the uninitiated, this makes little sense (as far as they are concerned, efabdfb is perfectly formed).
>
> This commit changes the message to "malformed object name or no such commit: efabdfb"
> ---
>  parse-options.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c
> index 3b71fbb..95eb1c4 100644
> --- a/parse-options.c
> +++ b/parse-options.c
> @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ int parse_opt_with_commit(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
>        if (!arg)
>                return -1;
>        if (get_sha1(arg, sha1))
> -               return error("malformed object name %s", arg);
> +               return error("malformed object name or no such commit: %s", arg);
>        commit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
>        if (!commit)
>                return error("no such commit %s", arg);
> --
> 1.6.4
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