When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a revision
name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we used to
give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message has been
clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command line.
* mm/die-with-dashdash-help:
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
const char *arg,
int diagnose_misspelt_rev)
{
- unsigned char sha1[20];
- unsigned mode;
-
if (!diagnose_misspelt_rev)
die("%s: no such path in the working tree.\n"
- "Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.",
+ "Use 'git <command> -- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.",
arg);
/*
* Saying "'(icase)foo' does not exist in the index" when the