Imagine seeing your command failing with "too many arguments" when
you run "git cmd foo bar baz". Can you tell it will work if you
said "git cmd foo bar"? Or is that trimming your command line too
much? Too little?
Instead, if the command reports "unknown argument: 'bar'", you'd know
that "bar" and everything after it is unwanted.
Let's make it so for a few remaining commands.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/prune-packed.c | 6 +++---
builtin/receive-pack.c | 3 ++-
builtin/tag.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/prune-packed.c b/builtin/prune-packed.c
index ca3578e158..46989e12f9 100644
--- a/builtin/prune-packed.c
+++ b/builtin/prune-packed.c
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ int cmd_prune_packed(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
prune_packed_usage, 0);
if (argc > 0)
- usage_msg_opt(_("too many arguments"),
- prune_packed_usage,
- prune_packed_options);
+ usage_msg_optf(_("unknown argument: '%s'"),
+ prune_packed_usage, prune_packed_options,
+ argv[0]);
prune_packed_objects(opts);
return 0;
diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
index 339524ae2a..e49f4ea4dd 100644
--- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -2503,7 +2503,8 @@ int cmd_receive_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options, receive_pack_usage, 0);
if (argc > 1)
- usage_msg_opt(_("too many arguments"), receive_pack_usage, options);
+ usage_msg_optf(_("unknown argument: '%s'"),
+ receive_pack_usage, options, argv[0]);
if (argc == 0)
usage_msg_opt(_("you must specify a directory"), receive_pack_usage, options);
diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index a1fb218512..274bd0e6ce 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
object_ref = argc == 2 ? argv[1] : "HEAD";
if (argc > 2)
- die(_("too many arguments"));
+ die(_("unknown argument: '%s'"), argv[2]);
if (repo_get_oid(the_repository, object_ref, &object))
die(_("Failed to resolve '%s' as a valid ref."), object_ref);
--
2.46.0-235-g968ce1ce0e
