On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Christian Couder wrote: > + 1) git rev-parse --quiet --verify "$1^{commit}" > /dev/null || > + die "'$1' does not seem to point to a valid commit" > > It would give a better error message when "git rev-parse" fails instead of: > > fatal: Needed a single revision > > and it would not print the SHA1 from "$1^{commit}" when "git rev-parse" > succeeds. Oh, oops, I somehow lost the > /dev/null in my version. But as for the ‘git rev-parse’ error being confusing, why don’t we fix ‘git rev-parse’ instead? Anders -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html