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

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

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These are quite verbose. Could they be conditional on something like
advice.describeHints?

Concurred.  Please make it so.

I don't have a strong opinion either ways, but is having a less verbose 
message in the _error_ path really a big issue?

Thanks for catching a thinko---I somehow thought the patch was about
warning when we give an annotated tag that is farther than an unannotated
one.

It should be good enough to unconditionally give hints upon an error, as
long as they are correct.