apply: make --verbose a little more useful
When a patch fails, I automatically add '-v' to the command line
to see what fails.
This patch makes -v a synonym to --verbose, and actually tells
the user which text was not found.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 3fefdac..17f4ad5 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -1655,6 +1655,8 @@
/* Ignore it, we already handled it */
break;
default:
+ if (apply_verbosely)
+ error("invalid start of line: '%c'", first);
return -1;
}
patch += len;
@@ -1752,6 +1754,9 @@
}
}
+ if (offset && apply_verbosely)
+ error("while searching for:\n%.*s", oldsize, oldlines);
+
free(old);
free(new);
return offset;
@@ -2692,7 +2697,7 @@
apply = apply_with_reject = apply_verbosely = 1;
continue;
}
- if (!strcmp(arg, "--verbose")) {
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "-v") || !strcmp(arg, "--verbose")) {
apply_verbosely = 1;
continue;
}
