From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:16:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1260180650-613-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Heya, On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:10, Matthieu Moy wrote: > 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 :). -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier