Re: [PATCH 1/9] Report bugs consistently

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 29, 2016, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfurv3ejz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <8615dc276828a3f99a27ff2eda9909548a7d435e.1467199553.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> The vast majority of error messages in Git's source code which report a
> bug use the convention to prefix the message with "BUG:".

Good thing to do.

But if we were to review and apply a 200+ line patch, I wonder if we want to go one step further to allow us to write

    BUG("killed-file %s not found", name);

instead.

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