Re: `git mv` has ambiguous error message for non-existing target

On Sa 17 Nov 2012 20:35:09 CET, Junio C Hamano wrote: Patrick Lehner writes: But just because mv's error essage isnt very good, does that mean git mv's error message mustn't be better? Did I say the error message from 'mv' was not very good in the message you are

Re: `git mv` has ambiguous error message for non-existing target

But just because mv's error essage isnt very good, does that mean git mv's error message mustn't be better? That would strike me as an odd bit of reasoning. On Fr 16 Nov 2012 02:34:32 CET, Junio C Hamano wrote: Patrick Lehner writes: To reproduce: - cd into a git repo - assu

`git mv` has ambiguous error message for non-existing target

Hey guys, as was brought up on #github today, the "git mv" command has a bit of a little-helping output message when the target directory (or any intermediate directories) dont exist. To reproduce: - cd into a git repo - assuming "filea.txt" is an existing file in the CWD, and "dirb" is neit