Like error(), warn(), and die(), advise() prints a short message with a formulaic prefix to stderr. It is local to revert.c for now because I am not sure this is the right API (we may want to take an array of advice lines or a boolean argument for easy suppression of unwanted advice). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/revert.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/revert.c b/builtin/revert.c index c3d64af..74c1581 100644 --- a/builtin/revert.c +++ b/builtin/revert.c @@ -241,6 +241,15 @@ static void set_author_ident_env(const char *message) sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1)); } +static void advise(const char *advice, ...) +{ + va_list params; + + va_start(params, advice); + vreportf("hint: ", advice, params); + va_end(params); +} + static char *help_msg(void) { struct strbuf helpbuf = STRBUF_INIT; -- 1.7.2.1.544.ga752d.dirty -- 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