Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> As the "checkout" documentation describes:
>
>     If <branch> is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in
>     exactly one remote (call it <remote>) with a matching name, treat
>     as equivalent to [...] <remote>/<branch.
>
> This is a really useful feature. The problem is that when you and

s/and/add/

> another remote (e.g. a fork) git won't find a unique branch name

Missing comma: s/)/),/

> anymore, and will instead print this nondescript message:

Perhaps s/nondescript/unhelpful/ ?

>     $ git checkout master
>     error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git
>
> Now it will, on my git.git checkout, print:
>
>     $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master
>     error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>     hint: The argument 'master' matched more than one remote tracking branch.
>     hint: We found 26 remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back
>     hint: on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too!
>     hint:
>     hint: If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on e.g. 'origin'

Missing commas: s/on e.g. 'origin'/on, e.g. 'origin',/

>     hint: you can do so by fully-qualifying the name with the --track option:

s/fully-qualifying/fully qualifying/

>     hint:
>     hint:     git checkout --track origin/<name>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>

Aside from the s/and/add/ botch, all of the above are tiny nits which
don't actually impact the meaning of the commit message, thus not
really important.

> ---
> diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> @@ -1267,6 +1268,18 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> +               if (ret && dwim_remotes_matched > 1 &&
> +                   advice_checkout_ambiguous_remote_branch_name)
> +                       advise(_("The argument '%s' matched more than one remote tracking branch.\n"

You could drop "The argument" prefix, without hurting the meaning at
all, in order to gain a bit more horizontal space for the '%s'
interpolation. (Not worth a re-roll.)

> +                                "We found %d remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back\n"
> +                                "on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too!\n"
> +                                "\n"
> +                                "If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on e.g. 'origin'\n"
> +                                "you can do so by fully-qualifying the name with the --track option:\n"
> +                                "\n"
> +                                "    git checkout --track origin/<name>"),
> +                              argv[0],
> +                              dwim_remotes_matched);