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rev-parse: better error message for ambiguous arguments

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Currently, if git-rev-parse encounters an argument that is neither a
recognizable revision name nor the name of an existing file or
directory, and it hasn't encountered a "--" argument, it prints an
error message saying "No such file or directory".  This can be
confusing for users, including users of programs such as gitk that
use git-rev-parse, who may then think that they can't ask about the
history of files that no longer exist.

This makes it print a better error message, one that points out the
ambiguity and tells the user what to do to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras 2006-04-25 10:00:03 +10:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 34fd1c9ac5
commit 3e1a70d925
1 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ static int show_file(const char *arg)
return 0;
}
static void die_badfile(const char *arg)
{
if (errno != ENOENT)
die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
die("'%s' is ambiguous - revision name or file/directory name?\n"
"Please put '--' before the list of filenames.", arg);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i, as_is = 0, verify = 0;
@ -176,7 +184,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (as_is) {
if (show_file(arg) && as_is < 2)
if (lstat(arg, &st) < 0)
die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
die_badfile(arg);
continue;
}
if (!strcmp(arg,"-n")) {
@ -343,7 +351,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (verify)
die("Needed a single revision");
if (lstat(arg, &st) < 0)
die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
die_badfile(arg);
}
show_default();
if (verify && revs_count != 1)