From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294672047F for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751683AbdIWKup (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:50:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-f67.google.com ([74.125.83.67]:34508 "EHLO mail-pg0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751059AbdIWKuo (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:50:44 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-f67.google.com with SMTP id u18so2110317pgo.1 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:50:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=p2JYxLqpXjiZA/fe4Za+R9nA4ZEHW4ih8eFgaV2n8kg=; b=LlhQiKrF5IT8uJp7Xk+T2onYJzWtQteSA1atvSqk/hQJKKjXZ2jLUzzD/PfUvNyJhm 3LQUaKZAstMB8+VGzH/kvYjcyu0vqhsVPiM9mGRMbOaWjtw3QVmsz+m1JiC5FAME2wZJ FEhpwSb6u/oyOo1obXuzy4Pft+v6r4OuBwukVCg9jGAPR9ATqInF0/1XbW6UrVRi9Wh/ zgUFos2B1D0uA75SKmm038h+9CBD67Uj+uHD8SkbIbMbAiC8EqPR6f3VI1ilW7+JD8f1 e/INpQY+QoYff5eT/sf79WMWroh3CxWaXKqfrhMjxkvfc0N4mE/m2/DttQxNQDqQQtbn 40Ow== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=p2JYxLqpXjiZA/fe4Za+R9nA4ZEHW4ih8eFgaV2n8kg=; b=Q6mXEej0VG39LpW1CO/rej0acLN9rX5cy46+q11kUBGii6iKFSCyUvGS6M0UtDF21M lImVp+hIvERBpRixzkRS46OqQIRfLxzbUO5p2olSN40dAGWd0J2phpeeNZYzRH40WQBk uVilV5ZUMzV6aJ7XxRsBoTi0zEBqrhueGmw3eWF4giOSyhxmjKggeO2apSLOYw6RLvWM yQLBjbQigMVslZAwNaqaZnhOcMDF3sicAVnJf6mX1+MEzFpbZdM4hT5i30uyr8W1wKGX NB6PN9YZ8MusNdJGgmfvIq1RMhweneaQer9ZdLuhPpUaBITVtohYInxY3eNIduOpKZTM AIFA== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUgq0BAL5jKscOPxTFEakKfdeyWENC0mxFsy2KV+/3zPT+tVeQ/J Y1QxfwtHRKcnfcR929+p7dpIIKgn X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QC3eu+kpCDt2ql4LtrTHQjCyC5lM1JQUQJ26uqbol+BR56KCtYNCgaRvOawS3LBEvPRX8HVuQ== X-Received: by 10.84.238.201 with SMTP id l9mr1794982pln.159.1506163843862; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2405:204:70c5:34d4:f862:3e2d:a1bf:681d? ([2405:204:70c5:34d4:f862:3e2d:a1bf:681d]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m87sm3188530pfi.122.2017.09.23.03.50.39 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] builtin/branch: give more useful error messages when renaming To: Stefan Beller Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" , Junio C Hamano References: <20170919071525.9404-1-kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> <20170919071525.9404-6-kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> From: Kaartic Sivaraam Message-ID: <2e91fd2e-3c8a-ff93-ff6f-4a30191d1249@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:20:35 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 21 September 2017 02:27 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: > >> It's conventional to report that 'tset' doesn't exist rather than >> reporting that 'master' exists, the same way the 'mv' command does. >> >> $ git branch -m tset master > This is not the 'mv' command as promised? So this is just > to demonstrate the (still fictional) better error message? Yes > Maybe use a real 'mv' command here? It didn't want to do that to avoid preserve continuity. I'll change the commit message a little to fix this. --- Kaartic