Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] builtin/branch: give more useful error messages when renaming

Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:20:35 +0530

On Thursday 21 September 2017 02:27 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:

It's conventional to report that 'tset' doesn't exist rather than
reporting that 'master' exists, the same way the 'mv' command does.

     $ git branch -m tset master
This is not the 'mv' command as promised? So this is just
to demonstrate the (still fictional) better error message?

Yes

Maybe use a real 'mv' command here?

It didn't want to do that to avoid preserve continuity. I'll change the 
commit
message a little to fix this.

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Kaartic