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There are three occurences of 'git rev-parse <rev>' in 'git-subtree.sh'
where the command expects a revision and the script dies or exits if the
revision can't be found. In that case, the error message from 'git
rev-parse' is:
$ git rev-parse <bad rev>
<bad rev>
fatal: ambiguous argument '<bad rev>': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
This is a little confusing to the user, since this error message is
outputed by 'git subtree'.
At these points in the script, we know that we are looking for a single
revision, so be explicit by using '--verify', resulting in a little
better error message:
$ git rev-parse --verify <bad rev>
fatal: Needed a single revision
In the two occurences where we 'die' if 'git rev-parse' fails, 'git
subtree' outputs "could not rev-parse split hash $b from commit $sq", so
we actually do not need the supplementary error message from 'git
rev-parse'; add '--quiet' to silence it.
In the third occurence, we 'exit', so keep the error message from 'git
rev-parse'. Note that this messsage is still suboptimal since it can be
understood to mean that 'git rev-parse' did not receive a single
revision as argument, which is not the case here: the command did
receive a single revision, but the revision is not resolvable to an
available object.
The alternative would be to use '--' after the revision, as suggested by
the first error message, resulting in a clearer error message:
$ git rev-parse <bad rev> --
fatal: bad revision '<bad rev>'
Unfortunately we can't use that syntax because in the more common case
of the revision resolving to a known object, the command outputs the
object's hash, a newline, and the dashdash, which breaks the 'git
subtree' script.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there are some general interests (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc