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Author SHA1 Message Date
Junio C Hamano
49d833dc07 Revert "checkout branch: prime cache-tree fully"
The logic in 83ae209 (checkout branch: prime cache-tree fully,
2009-04-20) is bogus; checkout can switch branches with a dirty
index and in such a case the tree won't match HEAD.

Add t2014-switch to catch this breakage.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-12 09:57:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
83ae209bf9 checkout branch: prime cache-tree fully
When switching to another branch, the earlier code relied on incremental
invalidation of cache-tree entries to degrade it.  While it is not wrong
per-se, we know that the resulting index must fully match the branch we
are switching to unless the -m (merge) option is used.

We should simply fully re-prime the cache-tree using the new tree object
in such a case.  And for safety, invalidate the cache-tree as a whole in
other cases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-20 04:16:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b9d37a5420 Move prime_cache_tree() to cache-tree.c
The interface to build cache-tree belongs there.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-20 04:16:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f392485813 Merge branch 'js/maint-submodule-checkout' into maint
* js/maint-submodule-checkout:
  Fix 'git checkout <submodule>' to update the index
2009-04-18 14:18:29 -07:00
Jari Aalto
714fddf2fc Change double quotes to single quotes in message
Most of the time when we give branch name in the message, we quote it
inside a pair of single-quotes.  git-checkout uses double-quotes; this
patch corrects the inconsistency.

Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 23:04:45 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
bef3894847 Fix 'git checkout <submodule>' to update the index
While 'git checkout <submodule>' should not update the submodule's
working directory, it should update the index.  This is in line with
how submodules are handled in the rest of Git.

While at it, test 'git reset [<commit>] <submodule>', too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-02 13:16:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8712b3cdb0 Merge branch 'tr/previous-branch'
* tr/previous-branch:
  t1505: remove debugging cruft
  Simplify parsing branch switching events in reflog
  Introduce for_each_recent_reflog_ent().
  interpret_nth_last_branch(): plug small memleak
  Fix reflog parsing for a malformed branch switching entry
  Fix parsing of @{-1}@{1}
  interpret_nth_last_branch(): avoid traversing the reflog twice
  checkout: implement "-" abbreviation, add docs and tests
  sha1_name: support @{-N} syntax in get_sha1()
  sha1_name: tweak @{-N} lookup
  checkout: implement "@{-N}" shortcut name for N-th last branch

Conflicts:
	sha1_name.c
2009-01-28 15:00:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d64d4835b8 Merge branch 'cb/add-pathspec'
* cb/add-pathspec:
  remove pathspec_match, use match_pathspec instead
  clean up pathspec matching
2009-01-25 17:13:11 -08:00
Thomas Rast
696acf45f9 checkout: implement "-" abbreviation, add docs and tests
Have '-' mean the same as '@{-1}', i.e., the last branch we were on.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 18:37:21 -08:00
Thomas Rast
a884d0cb71 sha1_name: tweak @{-N} lookup
Have the lookup only look at "interesting" checkouts, meaning those
that tell you "Already on ..." don't count even though they also cause
a reflog entry.

Let interpret_nth_last_branch() return the number of characters
parsed, so that git-checkout can verify that the branch spec was
@{-N}, not @{-1}^2 or something like that.  (The latter will be added
later.)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 18:37:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ae5a6c3684 checkout: implement "@{-N}" shortcut name for N-th last branch
Implement a shortcut @{-N} for the N-th last branch checked out, that
works by parsing the reflog for the message added by previous
git-checkout invocations.  We expand the @{-N} to the branch name, so
that you end up on an attached HEAD on that branch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 18:36:49 -08:00
Stephan Beyer
ae98a0089f Move run_hook() from builtin-commit.c into run-command.c (libgit)
A function that runs a hook is used in several Git commands.
builtin-commit.c has the one that is most general for cases without
piping. The one in builtin-gc.c prints some useful warnings.
This patch moves a merged version of these variants into libgit and
lets the other builtins use this libified run_hook().

The run_hook() function used in receive-pack.c feeds the standard
input of the pre-receive or post-receive hooks. This function is
renamed to run_receive_hook() because the libified run_hook() cannot
handle this.

Mentored-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 17:16:24 -08:00
Stephan Beyer
2292ce4785 checkout: don't crash on file checkout before running post-checkout hook
In the case of

	git init
	echo exit >.git/hooks/post-checkout
	chmod +x .git/hooks/post-checkout
	touch foo
	git add foo
	rm foo
	git checkout -- foo

git-checkout resulted in a Segmentation fault, because there is no new
branch set for the post-checkout hook.

This patch makes use of the null SHA as it is set for the old branch.

While at it, I removed the xstrdup() around the sha1_to_hex(...) calls
in builtin-checkout.c/post_checkout_hook() because sha1_to_hex()
uses four buffers for the hex-dumped SHA and we only need two.
(Duplicating one buffer is only needed if we need more than four.)

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 17:16:16 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
0b50922abf remove pathspec_match, use match_pathspec instead
Both versions have the same functionality. This removes any
redundancy.

This also adds makes two extensions to match_pathspec:

- If pathspec is NULL, return 1. This reflects the behavior of git
  commands, for which no paths usually means "match all paths".

- If seen is NULL, do not use it.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-14 19:18:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
687004b512 Merge branch 'jc/maint-do-not-switch-to-non-commit' into maint
* jc/maint-do-not-switch-to-non-commit:
  git checkout: do not allow switching to a tree-ish that is not a commit
2009-01-11 23:24:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8ea6ae99b2 Merge branch 'jc/maint-do-not-switch-to-non-commit'
* jc/maint-do-not-switch-to-non-commit:
  git checkout: do not allow switching to a tree-ish that is not a commit
2009-01-03 13:57:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3442ea4a75 git checkout: do not allow switching to a tree-ish that is not a commit
"git checkout -b newbranch $commit^{tree}" mistakenly created a new branch
rooted at the current HEAD, because in that case, the two structure fields
used to see if the command was invoked without any argument (hence it
needs to default to checking out the HEAD) were populated incorrectly.

Upon seeing a command line argument that we took as a rev, we should store
that string in new.name, even if that does not name a commit.  This will
correctly trigger the existing safety logic.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
2009-01-03 13:34:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b96524f83a builtin-checkout.c: check error return from read_cache()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-07 19:08:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
455d0f5c23 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  sha1_file.c: resolve confusion EACCES vs EPERM
  sha1_file: avoid bogus "file exists" error message
  git checkout: don't warn about unborn branch if -f is already passed
  bash: offer refs instead of filenames for 'git revert'
  bash: remove dashed command leftovers
  git-p4: fix keyword-expansion regex
  fast-export: use an unsorted string list for extra_refs
  Add new testcase to show fast-export does not always exports all tags
2008-11-27 19:23:51 -08:00
Matt McCutchen
1510dbe380 git checkout: don't warn about unborn branch if -f is already passed
I think it's unnecessary to warn that the checkout has been forced due to an
unborn current branch if -f has been explicitly passed.  For one project, I am
using git-new-workdir to create workdirs from a bare repository whose HEAD is
set to an unborn branch, and this warning started to irritate me.

Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-27 18:35:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6cd3729eae Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Start 1.6.0.5 cycle
  Fix pack.packSizeLimit and --max-pack-size handling
  checkout: Fix "initial checkout" detection
  Remove the period after the git-check-attr summary

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
2008-11-12 15:03:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fa7b3c2f75 checkout: Fix "initial checkout" detection
Earlier commit 5521883 (checkout: do not lose staged removal, 2008-09-07)
tightened the rule to prevent switching branches from losing local
changes, so that staged removal of paths can be protected, while
attempting to keep a loophole to still allow a special case of switching
out of an un-checked-out state.

However, the loophole was made a bit too tight, and did not allow
switching from one branch (in an un-checked-out state) to check out
another branch.

The change to builtin-checkout.c in this commit loosens it to allow this,
by not insisting the original commit and the new commit to be the same.

It also introduces a new function, is_index_unborn (and an associated
macro, is_cache_unborn), to check if the repository is truly in an
un-checked-out state more reliably, by making sure that $GIT_INDEX_FILE
did not exist when populating the in-core index structure.  A few places
the earlier commit 5521883 added the check for the initial checkout
condition are updated to use this function.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-12 14:16:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a9645b780b Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: bisect: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"
  Documentation: rev-list: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"
  checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch.
2008-11-09 10:56:26 -08:00
Alexandre Julliard
323e00fd46 checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch.
When using alternates, it is possible for HEAD to end up pointing to
an invalid commit. git checkout should be able to recover from that
situation without crashing.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-09 10:11:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
828e32b82e Fix mismerge at cdb22c4 in builtin-checkout.c
The code to complain when -b is not given but an explicit --track/--no-track
override was given from the command line was unchanged on one branch and
reworked on the other branch.  The merge result incorrectly kept it.

Spotted by Matt McCutchen.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 15:32:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a38bb0cc0f Merge branch 'db/maint-checkout-b' into maint
* db/maint-checkout-b:
  Check early that a new branch is new and valid
2008-10-18 08:18:11 -07:00
Brandon Casey
f285a2d7ed Replace calls to strbuf_init(&foo, 0) with STRBUF_INIT initializer
Many call sites use strbuf_init(&foo, 0) to initialize local
strbuf variable "foo" which has not been accessed since its
declaration. These can be replaced with a static initialization
using the STRBUF_INIT macro which is just as readable, saves a
function call, and takes up fewer lines.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-12 12:36:19 -07:00
Dmitry Potapov
048f276200 do not segfault if make_cache_entry failed
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-06 07:19:36 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
9ba929ed65 Merge branch 'jc/better-conflict-resolution'
* jc/better-conflict-resolution:
  Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentation
  git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented
  checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style
  checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index
  git-merge-recursive: learn to honor merge.conflictstyle
  merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3 -m" styles
  rerere: understand "diff3 -m" style conflicts with the original
  rerere.c: use symbolic constants to keep track of parsing states
  xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or less
  xmerge.c: minimum readability fixups
  xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style
  xdl_fill_merge_buffer(): separate out a too deeply nested function
  checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge
  checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-checkout.txt
	builtin-checkout.c
	builtin-merge-recursive.c
	t/t7201-co.sh
2008-09-29 10:15:07 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ed520a8f27 Merge branch 'mv/merge-recursive'
* mv/merge-recursive:
  builtin-merge: release the lockfile in try_merge_strategy()
  merge-recursive: get rid of virtual_id
  merge-recursive: move current_{file,directory}_set to struct merge_options
  merge-recursive: move the global obuf to struct merge_options
  merge-recursive: get rid of the index_only global variable
  merge-recursive: move call_depth to struct merge_options
  cherry-pick/revert: make direct internal call to merge_tree()
  builtin-merge: avoid run_command_v_opt() for recursive and subtree
  merge-recursive: introduce merge_options
  merge-recursive.c: Add more generic merge_recursive_generic()
  Split out merge_recursive() to merge-recursive.c
2008-09-25 09:49:19 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
c9c6cc8d7d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update release notes for 1.6.0.3
  checkout: Do not show local changes when in quiet mode
  for-each-ref: Fix --format=%(subject) for log message without newlines
  git-stash.sh: don't default to refs/stash if invalid ref supplied
  maint: check return of split_cmdline to avoid bad config strings
2008-09-25 08:27:53 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
7fe4a728a1 checkout: Do not show local changes when in quiet mode
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-25 07:46:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
666599d798 Merge branch 'db/maint-checkout-b'
* db/maint-checkout-b:
  Check early that a new branch is new and valid
2008-09-21 23:50:05 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
352eadc400 Check early that a new branch is new and valid
If you fail to update refs to change branches in checkout, your index
and working tree are left already updated. We don't have an easy way
to undo this, but at least we can check things that would make the
creation of a new branch fail. These checks were in the shell version,
and were lost in the C conversion.

The messages are from the shell version, and should probably be made nicer.

[jc: added test to t7201]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-21 23:17:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2ba3d5d9bd Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-keep-remove' into maint
* jc/maint-checkout-keep-remove:
  checkout: do not lose staged removal
2008-09-18 19:53:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
578421fbd8 Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-keep-remove'
* jc/maint-checkout-keep-remove:
  checkout: do not lose staged removal
2008-09-16 00:49:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
94c27881bd Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-fix' into maint
* jc/maint-checkout-fix:
  checkout: do not check out unmerged higher stages randomly
2008-09-10 02:13:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5521883490 checkout: do not lose staged removal
The logic to checkout a different commit implements the safety to never
lose user's local changes.  For example, switching from a commit to
another commit, when you have changed a path that is different between
them, need to merge your changes to the version from the switched-to
commit, which you may not necessarily be able to resolve easily.  By
default, "git checkout" refused to switch branches, to give you a chance
to stash your local changes (or use "-m" to merge, accepting the risks of
getting conflicts).

This safety, however, had one deliberate hole since early June 2005.  When
your local change was to remove a path (and optionally to stage that
removal), the command checked out the path from the switched-to commit
nevertheless.

This was to allow an initial checkout to happen smoothly (e.g. an initial
checkout is done by starting with an empty index and switching from the
commit at the HEAD to the same commit).  We can tighten the rule slightly
to allow this special case to pass, without losing sight of removal
explicitly done by the user, by noticing if the index is truly empty when
the operation begins.

For historical background, see:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/4641/focus=4646

This case is marked as *0* in the message, which both Linus and I said "it
feels somewhat wrong but otherwise we cannot start from an empty index".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-09 22:55:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11bd3ddb91 Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-fix'
* jc/maint-checkout-fix:
  checkout: do not check out unmerged higher stages randomly

Conflicts:
	t/t7201-co.sh
2008-09-07 22:44:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9b8ae93ad9 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Start 1.6.0.2 maintenance cycle
  tests: use "git xyzzy" form (t7200 - t9001)
  tests: use "git xyzzy" form (t7000 - t7199)
  Fix passwd(5) ref and reflect that commit doens't use commit-tree
  improve handling of sideband message display
  tests: use "git xyzzy" form (t3600 - t6999)
  tests: use "git xyzzy" form (t0000 - t3599)
  checkout: fix message when leaving detached HEAD
  clone: fix creation of explicitly named target directory
  'git foo' program identifies itself without dash in die() messages
  setup_git_directory(): fix move to worktree toplevel directory
  update-index: fix worktree setup
  Start conforming code to "git subcmd" style
  read-tree: setup worktree if merge is required
  grep: fix worktree setup
  diff*: fix worktree setup

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
	t/t3900-i18n-commit.sh
	t/t7003-filter-branch.sh
2008-09-03 16:08:23 -07:00
Jeff King
bea005e21b checkout: fix message when leaving detached HEAD
The shell version of git checkout would print:

  Previous HEAD position was 1234abcd... commit subject line

when leaving a detached HEAD for another commit. Ths C
version attempted to implement this, but got the condition
wrong such that the behavior never triggered.

This patch simplifies the conditions for showing the message
to the ones used by the shell version: any time we are
leaving a detached HEAD and the new and old commits are not
the same (this suppresses it for the "git checkout -b new"
case recommended when you enter the detached state).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-03 12:36:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eac5a40151 checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style
This new option does essentially the same thing as -m option when checking
unmerged paths out of the index, but it uses the specified style instead
of configured merge.conflictstyle.

Setting "merge.conflictstyle" to "diff3" is usually less useful than using
the default "merge" style, because the latter allows a conflict that
results by both sides changing the same region in a very similar way to
get simplified substancially by reducing the common lines.  However, when
one side removed a group of lines (perhaps a function was moved to some
other file) while the other side modified it, the default "merge" style
does not give any clue as to why the hunk is left conflicting.  You would
need the original to understand what is going on.

The recommended use would be not to set merge.conflictstyle variable so
that you would usually use the default "merge" style conflict, and when
the result in a path in a particular merge is too hard to understand, use
"git checkout --conflict=diff3 $path" to check it out with the original to
review what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31 20:09:21 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
8a2fce1895 merge-recursive: introduce merge_options
This makes it possible to avoid passing the labels of branches as
arguments to merge_recursive(), merge_trees() and
merge_recursive_generic().

It also takes care of subtree merge, output buffering, verbosity, and
rename limits - these were global variables till now in
merge-recursive.c.

A new function, named init_merge_options(), is introduced as well, it
clears the struct merge_info, then initializes with default values,
finally updates the default values based on the config and environment
variables.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 20:46:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0cf8581e33 checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index
This teaches git-checkout to recreate a merge out of unmerged
index entries while resolving conflicts.

With this patch, checking out an unmerged path from the index
now have the following possibilities:

 * Without any option, an attempt to checkout an unmerged path
   will atomically fail (i.e. no other cleanly-merged paths are
   checked out either);

 * With "-f", other cleanly-merged paths are checked out, and
   unmerged paths are ignored;

 * With "--ours" or "--theirs, the contents from the specified
   stage is checked out;

 * With "-m" (we should add "--merge" as synonym), the 3-way merge
   is recreated from the staged object names and checked out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:57:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
38901a4837 checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge
This lets you to check out 'our' (or 'their') version of an
unmerged path out of the index while resolving conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:28:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db9410990e checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index
Earlier we made "git checkout $pathspec" to atomically refuse
the operation of $pathspec matched any path with unmerged
stages.  This patch allows:

    $ git checkout -f a b c

to ignore, instead of error out on, such unmerged paths.  The
fix to prevent checkout of an unmerged path from random stages
is still there.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:16:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8fdcf31254 checkout: do not check out unmerged higher stages randomly
During a conflicted merge when you have unmerged stages for a
path F in the index, if you said:

    $ git checkout F

we rewrote F as many times as we have stages for it, and the
last one (typically "theirs") was left in the work tree, without
resolving the conflict.

This fixes it by noticing that a specified pathspec pattern
matches an unmerged path, and by erroring out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 16:46:25 -07:00
Alex Riesen
9188ed8962 Extend "checkout --track" DWIM to support more cases
The code handles additionally "refs/remotes/<something>/name",
"remotes/<something>/name", and "refs/<namespace>/name".

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-22 17:18:26 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
bb0ceb6264 checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b' was omitted
What does the user most likely want with this command?

	$ git checkout --track origin/next

Exactly.  A branch called 'next', that tracks origin's branch 'next'.
Make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11 16:37:28 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
859fdabaed git-checkout: improve error messages, detect ambiguities.
The patch is twofold: it moves the option consistency checks just under
the parse_options call so that it doesn't get in the way of the tree
reference vs. pathspecs desambiguation.

The other part rewrites the way to understand arguments so that when
git-checkout fails it does with an understandable message. Compared to the
previous behavior we now have:

  - a better error message when doing:

        git checkout <blob reference> --

    now complains about the reference not pointing to a tree, instead of
    things like:

        error: pathspec <blob reference> did not match any file(s) known to git.
        error: pathspec '--' did not match any file(s) known to git.

  - a better error message when doing:

        git checkout <path> --

    It now complains about <path> not being a reference instead of the
    completely obscure:

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

  - an error when -- wasn't used, and the first argument is ambiguous
    (i.e. can be interpreted as both ref and as path).

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-24 23:24:00 -07:00