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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante•net>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mv: improve overwrite warning
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:57:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vobvd36ms.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212075227.GD17532@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:52:27 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> This message looks overly long to me, but I wanted to match the existing
> messages. Another option would be just:
>
>   warning: overwriting 'three/one'

Yes, I think it makes perfect sense to drop the ugly "source=one destination=two"
cruft, both for single-source and multiple-source cases.

>  builtin/mv.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c
> index ae6c30c..c9ecb03 100644
> --- a/builtin/mv.c
> +++ b/builtin/mv.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  				 * check both source and destination
>  				 */
>  				if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode) || S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
> -					warning(_("%s; will overwrite!"), bad);
> +					warning(_("%s (will overwrite), source=%s, destination=%s"),
> +						bad, src, dst);
>  					bad = NULL;
>  				} else
>  					bad = _("Cannot overwrite");

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-11 21:22 git 1.7.7.3: BUG - please make git mv -f quiet Jari Aalto
2011-12-12  7:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] mixed bag of minor "git mv" fixes Jeff King
2011-12-12  7:50   ` [PATCH 1/5] docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv" Jeff King
2011-12-12 19:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12  7:51   ` [PATCH 2/5] mv: honor --verbose flag Jeff King
2011-12-12 19:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 21:45       ` Jeff King
2011-12-12  7:51   ` [PATCH 3/5] mv: make non-directory destination error more clear Jeff King
2011-12-12 19:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12  7:52   ` [PATCH 4/5] mv: improve overwrite warning Jeff King
2011-12-12 19:57     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-12-12 21:52       ` Jeff King
2011-12-12 21:54         ` [PATCHv2 " Jeff King
2011-12-12 21:54         ` [PATCHv2 5/5] mv: be quiet about overwriting Jeff King
2011-12-12  7:54   ` [PATCH " Jeff King
2011-12-12 19:59     ` Junio C Hamano

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