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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/18] revert: Don't implictly stomp pending sequencer operation
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:36:52 +0530
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Hi,

Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Sure, if the advice is quiet (as it is in this case), I suppose there
> is no need to guard it until someone using it complains. :)
>
> I mentioned advice configuration to emphasize that output from running
> git with all "hint:" lines stripped out is supposed to be just as
> sensible as with them, if I understand the purpose of the facility
> correctly.

Ah, I hadn't thought about this so deeply.  Indeed a standalone
"error: Could not create sequencer directory '.git/sequencer'." does
not make much sense to the end user.  Now fix so that the caller
reports the error.
Thanks.

-- Ram