Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think a warning (or even error) like this would be more useful: > > test ! -d $objdir && error... # current behavior > test -d $objdir/objects && error "Did you mean $objdir/objects, silly?" # new error If it is an error common enough, perhaps we could even DWIM it, I guess, that is... if test ! -d $objdir then error elif test -d $objdir/objects/pack then possibly warn objdir=$objdir/objects fi > I.e. I suspect I'm not the only one who's not read the documentation > carefully enough and thought it was a path to the root of the repo and > wondered why it silently didn't work.
