| commit | 16ab794b8257dd08906994d5cccacfa3886aa543 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> | Sun May 24 09:22:51 2020 +0200 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Sun May 24 16:19:41 2020 -0700 |
| tree | ec26962828f670b65ceccfe637ee6a4558a0331d | |
| parent | ae92ac8ae3838e72840f5d019195bb9c0c9e7b0e [diff] |
checkout: add tests for -b and --track Test git checkout -b with and without --track and demonstrate unexpected error messages when it's given an extra (i.e. unsupported) path argument. In both cases it reports: $ git checkout -b foo origin/master bar fatal: 'bar' is not a commit and a branch 'foo' cannot be created from it The problem is that the start point we gave for the new branch is "origin/master" and "bar" is just some extra argument -- it could even be a valid commit, which would make the message even more confusing. We have more fitting error messages in git commit, but get confused; use the text of the rights ones in the tests. Reported-by: Dana Dahlstrom <dahlstrom@google.com> Original-test-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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