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Re: [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work

From: Alex Riesen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:36

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 17:44, Thomas Rast [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -259,7 +260,14 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
                       printf("%s\n", find_unique_abbrev(sha1, abbrev));
                       return;
               }
-               die("cannot describe '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+               if (unannotated_cnt)
+                       die("cannot describe '%s'"
+                           " with only\nannotated tags. Try --tags.",
+                           sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+               else
+                       die("cannot describe '%s'"
+                           " with tags\nTry --always, or create some tags.",
+                           sha1_to_hex(sha1));
These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like
advice.describeHints?
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