On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:36:38AM +0700, Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy wrote: > Back then when entry.c was part of checkout-index (or checkout-cache > at that time [1]). It makes sense to print the command name in error > messages. Nowadays entry.c is in libgit and can be used by any > commands, printing "git checkout-index: blah" does no more than > confusion. The error messages without it still give enough information. > > [1] 12dccc1 (Make fiel checkout function available to the git library - 2005-06-05) > > Signed-off-by: Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > I attempted to replace "git checkout-index" with the actual command name > when these functions are called, but I think it's better just removing > it... Agreed. This came up recently in another thread[1], and I also tracked it down to a simple cut-and-paste from the original checkout-index. Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> -Peff [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160751 -- 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