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

1 messages from 2011-08-09 to 2011-08-09. Participants: Piotr Krukowiecki.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28053

## Piotr Krukowiecki, 2011-08-09 09:58

Subject: Suggestion: improve cherry-pick message in case object is not found
Message-ID: <CAA01CsosJJb1suq2YDmcFKPdBD4yHWXrENfCP0mewDEhsFjcOg@mail.gmail.com>
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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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