Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.

[git.git] / setup.c

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index f67250b7c1f7b5a62c30de0122c404554357f61b..5792eb7ddfbe9a3e520dcf33081a6c098061d643 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -74,6 +74,18 @@ int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
        die_errno("failed to stat '%s'", arg);
 }
 
+static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
+{
+       unsigned char sha1[20];
+       unsigned mode;
+       /* try a detailed diagnostic ... */
+       get_sha1_with_mode_1(arg, sha1, &mode, 0, prefix);
+       /* ... or fall back the most general message. */
+       die("ambiguous argument '%s': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\n"
+           "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions", arg);
+
+}
+
 /*
  * Verify a filename that we got as an argument for a pathspec
  * entry. Note that a filename that begins with "-" never verifies
@@ -87,8 +99,7 @@ void verify_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
                die("bad flag '%s' used after filename", arg);
        if (check_filename(prefix, arg))
                return;
-       die("ambiguous argument '%s': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.\n"
-           "Use '--' to separate paths from revisions", arg);
+       die_verify_filename(prefix, arg);
 }
 
 /*