Junio,
giving the user a better error message is certainly an improvement.
But would not be another improvement to describe better the command syntax
so as to help the user write the command right in the first place?
After all, what is the syntax section in commands for?
If I had seen in the syntax:
git checkout [-q] [-f] [-m] [ [--track|--no-track](-b|-B)
<new_branch>] [<start_point>]
I would have written the command correctly, and not even stumbled on a
misleading
error message.
Note that the above syntax is exactly what the command must look like.
The syntax is mostly a description of the form of command for the
user. Internally, the
implementer can use it or can even use a different one (e.g. a more
lenient one and
detect errors at the semantic level instead). But here what matters is
not how the
command is implemented, but how the user has to form it.
Why it is so difficult to convince people to make documentation better?
-Angelo
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