Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like >> > advice.describeHints? >> >> Concurred. Please make it so. > > I don't have a strong opinion either ways, but is having a less verbose > message in the _error_ path really a big issue? Thanks for catching a thinko---I somehow thought the patch was about warning when we give an annotated tag that is farther than an unannotated one. It should be good enough to unconditionally give hints upon an error, as long as they are correct. -- 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