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Suggestion: improve cherry-pick message in case object is not found

Subject: Suggestion: improve cherry-pick message in case object is not found

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Piotr Krukowiecki· Aug 9, 2011, 09:58 UTC · lore
Hi,

I'd like to suggest improving message displayed by cherry-pick (and others?) when it's given non-existing sha1. For example:

$ git cherry-pick 2ac2d6d5997de01b84de54fe8ac5c7d6bba139ca fatal: bad object 2ac2d6d5997de01b84de54fe8ac5c7d6bba139ca

The "fatal: bad object" suggest to me that the object is found but is incorrect/corrupted. It took me some time (in which I managed to run git fsck) to find out that I ran this git on wrong repository, which did not have object with this sha1.

Is it possible to change this message to for example: fatal: could not find object 2ac2d6d5997de01b84de54fe8ac5c7d6bba139ca

Thanks,
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Piotr Krukowiecki

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