cherry-pick: show commit name instead of sha1

When we have a conflict, we advise the user to do:

  git commit -c $sha1

This works fine, but is unnecessarily confusing and annoying
for the user to type, when:

  git commit -c $the_thing_you_called_cherry_pick_with

works just as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-revert.c b/builtin-revert.c
index 77e4f4eed37d5ab320b6df95b76f9af776ca2fbb..ad612497a2aba1039ab19976a147738dec100a8a 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-revert.c
+++ b/builtin-revert.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static const char * const cherry_pick_usage[] = {
 static int edit, no_replay, no_commit, mainline, signoff;
 static enum { REVERT, CHERRY_PICK } action;
 static struct commit *commit;
+static const char *commit_name;
 static int allow_rerere_auto;
 
 static const char *me;
@@ -49,7 +50,6 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, const char **argv)
        const char * const * usage_str =
                action == REVERT ?  revert_usage : cherry_pick_usage;
        unsigned char sha1[20];
-       const char *arg;
        int noop;
        struct option options[] = {
                OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-commit", &no_commit, "don't automatically commit"),
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, const char **argv)
 
        if (parse_options(argc, argv, NULL, options, usage_str, 0) != 1)
                usage_with_options(usage_str, options);
-       arg = argv[0];
 
-       if (get_sha1(arg, sha1))
-               die ("Cannot find '%s'", arg);
+       commit_name = argv[0];
+       if (get_sha1(commit_name, sha1))
+               die ("Cannot find '%s'", commit_name);
        commit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
        if (!commit)
                exit(1);
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static void set_author_ident_env(const char *message)
                        sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
 }
 
-static char *help_msg(const unsigned char *sha1)
+static char *help_msg(const char *name)
 {
        struct strbuf helpbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
        char *msg = getenv("GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP");
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static char *help_msg(const unsigned char *sha1)
                strbuf_addf(&helpbuf,
                        "  When committing, use the option '-c %s'\n"
                        "to retain authorship and message.",
-                       find_unique_abbrev(sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
+                       name);
        }
        return strbuf_detach(&helpbuf, NULL);
 }
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
                if (commit_lock_file(&msg_file) < 0)
                        die ("Error wrapping up %s", defmsg);
                fprintf(stderr, "Automatic %s failed.%s\n",
-                       me, help_msg(commit->object.sha1));
+                       me, help_msg(commit_name));
                rerere(allow_rerere_auto);
                exit(1);
        }