On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 10:15:05PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > Should this not rather be > > > > - if (!cmit || get_revision(opts->revs)) > > - return error("BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk"); > > + if (!cmit) > > + return error(_("empty commit set passed")); > > + if (get_revision(opts->revs)) > > + return error(_("unexpected extra commit from walk")); > > Yeah, you're right. I'm not sure how a single rev with no-walk would > ever turn up more than one commit, though. So I think we should probably > go with: > > if (!cmit) > return error(_("empty commit set passed")); > if (get_revision(opts->revs)) > BUG("unexpected extra commit from walk"); > > And then if we ever see that case, we can decide from there what the > right action is (though _probably_ it's just to emit an error like you > have above, it might be a sign that our single-pick logic is wrong). > > I'll re-roll in that direction, and discuss further in the commit > message. After poking at it a bit more, I've convinced myself that this is the right thing, as options like "--branches" which expand into multiple tips already push us into the other code path. So here's a re-roll. The first one is identical except for the typo-fix in the commit message. [1/2]: sequencer: handle empty-set cases consistently [2/2]: sequencer: don't say BUG on bogus input sequencer.c | 12 ++++++++---- t/t3510-cherry-pick-sequence.sh | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -Peff