Re: [PATCH 4/8] revert: separate out parse errors logically

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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>                 For the first kind of error, it is insufficient to
> check if the buffer beings with a "pick" or "revert", otherwise the
> following insn sheet would be interpreted as having a malformed object
> name:

> pickle a1fe57~2
>
> In reality, the issue is that "pickle" is an unrecognized instruction.
> So, check that the buffer starts with ("pick " or "pick\t") and
> ("revert " or "revert\t").

Sorry, the above description just leaves me more confused than before.

What _actual impact_ does this patch have?  And why do we want it?
And what could be the bad side effects?  Everything else is just
irrelevant.

Before reading the above description, I thought this was just a code
cleanup.  So either the description or my reading is completely
confused.
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