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| author | Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> | 2006-11-30 12:28:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-12-01 21:55:45 -0800 |
| commit | ced7b828fadbf3d6de49d75392f1516b4ceb4491 (patch) | |
| tree | d316e234ab2c58ef4667786cf733d6a4893dcfd6 /builtin-ls-files.c | |
| parent | 67c08ce14fb488562666ab896541ad75f1bdcca6 (diff) | |
| download | git-ced7b828fadbf3d6de49d75392f1516b4ceb4491.tar.gz git-ced7b828fadbf3d6de49d75392f1516b4ceb4491.tar.xz | |
ls-files: Give hints when errors happen.
Without this patch "git commit file.c file2.c" produces the not
so stellar output:
error: pathspec 'file.c' did not match any.
error: pathspec 'file2.c' did not match any.
With this patch, the output is changed to:
error: pathspec 'file.c' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'file2.c' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Did you forget to 'git add'?
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin-ls-files.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-ls-files.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-ls-files.c b/builtin-ls-files.c index ad8c41e73..bc79ce40f 100644 --- a/builtin-ls-files.c +++ b/builtin-ls-files.c @@ -487,10 +487,14 @@ int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) for (num = 0; pathspec[num]; num++) { if (ps_matched[num]) continue; - error("pathspec '%s' did not match any.", + error("pathspec '%s' did not match any file(s) known to git.", pathspec[num] + prefix_offset); errors++; } + + if (errors) + fprintf(stderr, "Did you forget to 'git add'?\n"); + return errors ? 1 : 0; } |