Minor documentation fixes; nothing from git-ls-remote means no git repo

diff --git a/README b/README
index 128027e56a6a6537d8aadeeaac74d24836dc398c..2387c7be731df336895b1eefd27ea5ed54cf6968 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output
 of various git commands.
 
 When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the
-user with various views, such as summarized commit log and showing the commit
+user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit
 with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.
 
 Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and try to colorize it.

diff --git a/tig.c b/tig.c
index 52dac312e2840942ea6b1a7c87fb686ea2c64ace..d4c98693b4aed409161abb57f213fad8bc6e8c4a 100644 (file)
--- a/tig.c
+++ b/tig.c
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ init_colors(void)
  **/
 
 #define TIG_LS_REMOTE \
-       "git ls-remote ."
+       "git ls-remote . 2>/dev/null"
 
 /**
  * [[view-commands]]
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ init_colors(void)
 /* ... silently ignore that the following are also exported. */
 
 #define TIG_HELP_CMD \
-       "man tig 2> /dev/null"
+       "man tig 2>/dev/null"
 
 #define TIG_PAGER_CMD \
        ""
@@ -2021,6 +2021,9 @@ load_refs(void)
 
        pclose(pipe);
 
+       if (refs_size == 0)
+               die("Not a git repository");
+
        return OK;
 }
 
@@ -2155,7 +2158,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
  * have a file named 'master' it will clash with the reference named
  * 'master', and thus you will have to use:
  *
- *     $ tag log -- master
+ *     $ tig log -- master
  *
  * NOTE: For the main view, avoiding ambiguity will in some cases require
  * you to specify two "\--" options. The first will make tig(1) stop
@@ -2170,10 +2173,11 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
  * If you are only interested in changed that happened between two dates
  * you can use:
  *
- *     $ tig -- --after=may.5th --before=2006-05-16.15:44
+ *     $ tig -- --after=May.5th --before=2006-05-16.15:44
  *
  * NOTE: The dot (".") is used as a separator instead of a space to avoid
- * having to quote the option value.
+ * having to quote the option value. If you prefer use `--after="May 5th"`
+ * instead of `--after="May 5th"`.
  *
  * Limiting by commit ranges
  * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~