Re: [PATCH 01/13] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Introduce error_resolve_conflict corresponding to
>> die_resolve_conflict, and implement the latter function in terms of
>> the former.  The only trade-off is that die_resolve_conflict is a
>> little noisier now.
>
> The above doesn't tell me what I would want to know, namely:
>
>  1. The impact of this patch is to change an error message.
>
>  2. The change is from
>
> 	fatal: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
> 	Please, fix them up in the work tree ...
> 	... etc, etc ...
>
>     to
>
> 	error: 'commit' is not ...
> 	error: Please, fix them up...
> 	... etc, etc ...
> 	fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.
>
>  3. The intended benefit is that new, future callers may want the "error"
>     without exiting.

Your good suggestions for inexperienced people are always appreciated.

> Notice that after writing the above, a little detail jumps out:
> namely, the second "error:" line is giving advice, so it might make
> sense to make it say "hint:" instead.

Yes, and also I suspect that it shouldn't be hard to do this refactoring
without changing the output.
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