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bisect: improve error message when branch checkout fails
authorChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:02:26 +0000 (22:02 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:25:08 +0000 (00:25 -0700)
commitf3a186ffade15f793ea17713a10e10ec4f26ff11
tree80b6ee8d717441be0e83158f36d2d7d9a4e94101
parent0da43a685aa061f55ed19ea30e1d6220020059a6
bisect: improve error message when branch checkout fails

In "git-bisect.sh" the "git checkout" command is only used to
change the current branch, but it is used like this:

git checkout "$branch"

which will output the following misleading error message when
it fails:

error: pathspec 'foo' did not match any file(s) known to git.

This patch change the way we use "git checkout" like this:

git checkout "$branch" --

so that we will get the following error message:

fatal: invalid reference: foo

which is better.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-bisect.sh