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From: Marios Titas <redneb@gmx.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ident: make the useConfigOnly error messages more informative
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:25:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330232552.GA31861@zeno> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh4zr492.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:27:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Marios Titas <redneb@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> -			    && !(ident_config_given & IDENT_NAME_GIVEN))
>> -				die("user.useConfigOnly set but no name given");
>> +			    && !(ident_config_given & IDENT_NAME_GIVEN)) {
>> +				fputs(env_hint, stderr);
>> +				die("no name was given and auto-detection is disabled
>
>Hmph.  I do not think that this is making the message "more
>informative".
>
>When a user hits this error, the old message allowed the user to
>easily see how to toggle the "disable auto-detection" bit off to let
>the code continue by telling the name of the configuration, but the
>updated message hides that name, making it harder for the user to
>disable the disabling of auto-detection.
>
>I can buy the argument that this change helps the user by making the
>message "less" informative, though.  By discouraging the users from
>toggling the user.useConfigOnly bit off, it indirectly makes the
>other option to work around this error condition, i.e. giving a name
>more explicitly, more appetizing.

Yeah, maybe informative is not the right word. What I meant is that it 
directs the user to do the "git config user.name" thing, which is likely 
the most appropriate course of action in this situation. In any event, I 
think printing the env_hint message would be really helpful in this 
case.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-30 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-30 19:29 [PATCH 1/2] ident: check for useConfigOnly before auto-detection of name/email Marios Titas
2016-03-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] ident: make the useConfigOnly error messages more informative Marios Titas
2016-03-30 22:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-30 23:25     ` Marios Titas [this message]
2016-04-01 22:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-12 23:19         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-31 14:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] ident: check for useConfigOnly before auto-detection of name/email Jeff King
2016-03-31 15:01   ` Marios Titas
2016-03-31 16:31     ` Jeff King
2016-04-01 22:00     ` Junio C Hamano

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