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Re: [PATCH v3] Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 15, 2010, 14:16 UTC
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<fabb9a1e1002150616h6a747f58q41eecf84dac736fb@mail.gmail.com>
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<1260180650-613-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Heya,
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:10, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
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> The previous error message was the same in many situations (unknown
> revision or path not in the working tree). We try to help the user as
> much as possible to understand the error, especially with the
> sha1:filename notation. In this case, we say whether the sha1 or the
> filename is problematic, and diagnose the confusion between
> relative-to-root and relative-to-$PWD confusion precisely.

Thank you, I just got helped by your patch, and was very pleasantly surprised to see git being so unusually helpful! We'll make a user-friendly scm out of git yet :).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 9 of 9 in “Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.”
  1. Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.y@imag.fr, Dec 2, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoyDec 6, 2009
  4. Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.Matthieu Moy, Dec 6, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoyDec 7, 2009
  8. Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.Matthieu Moy, Dec 7, 2009
  9. Sverre RabbelierFeb 15, 2010

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