Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> 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. > > How do I do this correctly? In an ideal world, it would involve two patches. 1. first, restructure the code without changing output 2. then, change output Or: 1. first, change output without restructuring the code 2. then, restructure the code That way, readers could evaluate the merits of steps (1) and (2) separately. Oh, you mean how to write a "hint:" line analagous to "error:" lines? There's no standard API for that yet but there's an example in builtin/revert.c (see v1.7.3-rc0~26^2~3, Introduce advise() to print hints, 2010-08-11). -- 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