Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> writes:
> I think a warning (or even error) like this would be more useful:
>
> test ! -d $objdir && error... # current behavior
> test -d $objdir/objects && error "Did you mean $objdir/objects, silly?" #
> new error
If it is an error common enough, perhaps we could even DWIM it, I
guess, that is...
if test ! -d $objdir
then
error
elif test -d $objdir/objects/pack
then
possibly warn
objdir=$objdir/objects
fi
> I.e. I suspect I'm not the only one who's not read the documentation
> carefully enough and thought it was a path to the root of the repo and
> wondered why it silently didn't work.
