From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:02:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bisect: improve error message when branch checkout fails
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3-rc0~41
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3a186ffade15f793ea17713a10e10ec4f26ff11;p=git.git

bisect: improve error message when branch checkout fails

In "git-bisect.sh" the "git checkout" command is only used to
change the current branch, but it is used like this:

git checkout "$branch"

which will output the following misleading error message when
it fails:

error: pathspec 'foo' did not match any file(s) known to git.

This patch change the way we use "git checkout" like this:

git checkout "$branch" --

so that we will get the following error message:

fatal: invalid reference: foo

which is better.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
index e313bdea7..df0ae63b4 100755
--- a/git-bisect.sh
+++ b/git-bisect.sh
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ bisect_start() {
 	then
 		# Reset to the rev from where we started.
 		start_head=$(cat "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_START")
-		git checkout "$start_head" || exit
+		git checkout "$start_head" -- || exit
 	else
 		# Get rev from where we start.
 		case "$head" in
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ bisect_checkout() {
 	_msg="$2"
 	echo "Bisecting: $_msg"
 	mark_expected_rev "$_rev"
-	git checkout -q "$_rev" || exit
+	git checkout -q "$_rev" -- || exit
 	git show-branch "$_rev"
 }
 
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ bisect_reset() {
 	*)
 	    usage ;;
 	esac
-	git checkout "$branch" && bisect_clean_state
+	git checkout "$branch" -- && bisect_clean_state
 }
 
 bisect_clean_state() {