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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
	Omar Othman <omar.othman@booking•com>,
	Brandon McCaig <bamccaig@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: `git stash pop` UX Problem
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:19:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878usx5rwd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4n3l34ex.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:17:10 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org> writes:
>
>> All that verbosity...
>>
>> $ git stash pop
>> Auto-merging foo.txt
>> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in foo.txt
>> Cowardly refusing to drop stash
>> $
>
> Actually, modulo "Cowardly", that may be the most harmless phrasing,
> as apply_stash may try to signal an error for reasons not related to
> an inability to apply the change cleanly (e.g. we may have failed to
> refresh the index).

Without "Cowardly", the capriciosity of "refusing" does not make much
sense.  The error message is a tribute to GNU tar:
dak@lola:/tmp$ mkdir x
dak@lola:/tmp$ tar cfz x
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
dak@lola:/tmp$ 

The boring variant would be

$ git stash pop
Auto-merging foo.txt
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in foo.txt
Not dropping stash
$

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24  8:32 `git stash pop` UX Problem Omar Othman
2014-02-24 16:04 ` Brandon McCaig
2014-02-24 16:21   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 12:14     ` Holger Hellmuth
2014-02-25 12:33       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 13:02         ` Omar Othman
2014-02-25 19:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-25 20:48           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-25 22:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-27 13:18               ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-26  7:37           ` Omar Othman
2014-02-26 15:17           ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-25 23:50         ` brian m. carlson
2014-02-26  7:34       ` Omar Othman
2014-02-26  0:39     ` Simon Ruderich
2014-02-27 13:22       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-25 13:06   ` Omar Othman
2014-02-25 13:15     ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 14:12       ` Omar Othman
2014-02-25 15:25         ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 20:52           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-25 22:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 10:24               ` Stefan Haller
2014-02-26 10:45                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28  2:57                   ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28  4:50                     ` Brandon McCaig
2014-02-28 15:12                       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 15:42                         ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28 17:27                           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 19:45                             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-01  8:41                               ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 16:02                         ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 17:45                           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 19:39                             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28 17:45                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-01  8:47                       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-26  7:28           ` Omar Othman
2014-02-26  8:27             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 19:36               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 19:46                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 20:20                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 20:33                   ` David Kastrup
2014-02-26 22:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-27  0:19                       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-02-28  3:00                 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-27 13:25               ` Stephen Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-24  8:33 Omar Othman
2014-02-27 11:23 Damien Robert

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