Re: [PATCH] notes: Disallow reusing non-blob as a note object

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

+       if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
+               free(buf);
+               die(_("Cannot read note data from non-blob object '%s'."), arg);

The way this diagnostic is worded, it sound as if the 'read' failed
rather than that the user specified an incorrect object type. Perhaps
"Object is not a blob '%s'" or "Expected blob but '%s' has type '%s'"
or something along those lines?

Yeah, sounds good.  You also need to say what expects a blob, too.
Perhaps something like this?

 builtin/notes.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
index c11d6e6..a16bc00 100644
--- a/builtin/notes.c
+++ b/builtin/notes.c

@@ -272,8 +272,10 @@ static int parse_reuse_arg(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 		die(_("Failed to read object '%s'."), arg);
 	}
 	if (type != OBJ_BLOB) {
+		struct msg_arg *msg = opt->value;
 		free(buf);
-		die(_("Cannot read note data from non-blob object '%s'."), arg);
+		die(_("The -%c option takes a blob, which '%s' is not.",
+		      msg->use_editor ? 'c' : 'C', arg));
 	}
 	strbuf_add(&(msg->buf), buf, len);
 	free(buf);