Hi > This will give the message with "hint:" prefix, which is a good > starting point. > > The message is given unconditionally, without any way to turn it > off. For those who ... > >> git-branch(1) will error out if you give it a bad ref name. But the user >> might not understand why or what part of the name is illegal. > > ... do not understand why, it is helpful, but once they learned, it > is one extra line of unwanted text. If you want to give it a way to > squelch, see the comment before where enum advice_type is declared > in advice.h header file. I thought of doing that, but I reckoned that people who have a good intuition for the ref syntax would not get this error enough to want to turn if off. I’ll add a squelch option in the next version. Cheers -- Kristoffer Haugsbakk
