From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: What is 'git BRANCH'?
Message-ID: <loom.20080729T233158-95@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v63qob9hz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> index 37b1d76..c99e769 100644
> --- a/git.c
> +++ b/git.c
> @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
>  		cmd += 4;
>  		argv[0] = cmd;
>  		handle_internal_command(argc, argv);
> -		die("cannot handle %s internally", cmd);
> +		help_unknown_cmd(cmd);
>  	}

Which on windows leads to the less-than-friendly:

git BRANCH =>
git: 'BRANCH.exe' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.

I wonder if it wouldn't be better to simply to a case-insensitive
comparison when comparing against the builtin array.  Alternatively,
at least the the extension (if any) ought to be stripped.

I'd be glad to come up with the patch for either given the word...

- Eric