Junio C Hamano wrote:
> More importantly, doesn't "real_ref" have the name of the branch?
>
> Suppose the user said "git show @{10000}" instead of "git show
> master@{10000}" while on 'master'.My stupidity, sorry. > It could be argued that it may look nicer to say "your current > branch does not have enough update history" instead of saying > "master does not..." (i.e. different input to ask for the same > thing, different output depending on the way the user asked). It > also could be argued that they should produce the same diagnosis > that is more informative. Yeah, I wanted to discuss this: the problem is that even something as low-level as rev-list will print this "pretty" error. It's certainly useful for porcelain. How do we achieve this? An extra "is-porcelain" argument? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
