From ad8d5104b42108851b082d895018655ad5f9e4f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:40:48 +0000 Subject: checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout " MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As the "checkout" documentation describes: If is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it ) with a matching name, treat as equivalent to [...] / Note that the "error: pathspec[...]" message is still printed. This is because whatever else checkout may have tried earlier, its final fallback is to try to resolve the argument as a path. E.g. in this case: $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master pu error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. error: pathspec 'pu' did not match any file(s) known to git. There we don't print the "hint:" implicitly due to earlier logic around the DWIM fallback. That fallback is only used if it looks like we have one argument that might be a branch. I can't think of an intrinsic reason for why we couldn't in some future change skip printing the "error: pathspec[...]" error. However, to do so we'd need to pass something down to checkout_paths() to make it suppress printing an error on its own, and for us to be confident that we're not silencing cases where those errors are meaningful. I don't think that's worth it since determining whether that's the case could easily change due to future changes in the checkout logic. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- advice.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'advice.h') diff --git a/advice.h b/advice.h index 9f5064e82a..4d11d51d43 100644 --- a/advice.h +++ b/advice.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ extern int advice_add_embedded_repo; extern int advice_ignored_hook; extern int advice_waiting_for_editor; extern int advice_graft_file_deprecated; +extern int advice_checkout_ambiguous_remote_branch_name; int git_default_advice_config(const char *var, const char *value); __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2))) -- cgit v1.2.3