Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> writes:
>> + if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
>> + free(buf);
>> + die(_("Cannot read note data from non-blob object '%s'."),
>> arg);
>
> The way this diagnostic is worded, it sound as if the 'read' failed
> rather than that the user specified an incorrect object type. Perhaps
> "Object is not a blob '%s'" or "Expected blob but '%s' has type '%s'"
> or something along those lines?
Yeah, sounds good. You also need to say what expects a blob, too.
Perhaps something like this?
builtin/notes.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
index c11d6e6..a16bc00 100644
--- a/builtin/notes.c
+++ b/builtin/notes.c
@@ -272,8 +272,10 @@ static int parse_reuse_arg(const struct option *opt, const
char *arg, int unset)
die(_("Failed to read object '%s'."), arg);
}
if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
+ struct msg_arg *msg = opt->value;
free(buf);
- die(_("Cannot read note data from non-blob object '%s'."), arg);
+ die(_("The -%c option takes a blob, which '%s' is not.",
+ msg->use_editor ? 'c' : 'C', arg));
}
strbuf_add(&(msg->buf), buf, len);
free(buf);
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