From f3a186ffade15f793ea17713a10e10ec4f26ff11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Couder Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 22:02:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bisect: improve error message when branch checkout fails In "git-bisect.sh" the "git checkout" command is only used to change the current branch, but it is used like this: git checkout "$branch" which will output the following misleading error message when it fails: error: pathspec 'foo' did not match any file(s) known to git. This patch change the way we use "git checkout" like this: git checkout "$branch" -- so that we will get the following error message: fatal: invalid reference: foo which is better. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git-bisect.sh | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh index e313bdea70..df0ae63b4e 100755 --- a/git-bisect.sh +++ b/git-bisect.sh @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ bisect_start() { then # Reset to the rev from where we started. start_head=$(cat "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_START") - git checkout "$start_head" || exit + git checkout "$start_head" -- || exit else # Get rev from where we start. case "$head" in @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ bisect_checkout() { _msg="$2" echo "Bisecting: $_msg" mark_expected_rev "$_rev" - git checkout -q "$_rev" || exit + git checkout -q "$_rev" -- || exit git show-branch "$_rev" } @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ bisect_reset() { *) usage ;; esac - git checkout "$branch" && bisect_clean_state + git checkout "$branch" -- && bisect_clean_state } bisect_clean_state() {