checkout: quote invalid treeish in error message
We received a report that invoking "git restore -source my_base_branch" resulted in the confusing error message "fatal: could not resolve ource". This looked like a typo in our error message, but it is actually because "-source" is missing its second dash and is being resolved as "-s ource". However, due to the lack of the quoting recommended in CodingGuidelines, this is confusing to the reader and we can do better. Add the necessary quoting to this message. With this change, we now get this less confusing message: fatal: could not resolve 'ource' Reported-by: Zhelyo Zhelev <zhelyo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson committed
Dec 24, 2025 at 20:32 UTC
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builtin/checkout.c
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index 01ea9ff8b2..afec07534f 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ static int checkout_main(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
struct object_id rev;
if (repo_get_oid_mb(the_repository, opts->from_treeish, &rev))
- die(_("could not resolve %s"), opts->from_treeish);
+ die(_("could not resolve '%s'"), opts->from_treeish);
setup_new_branch_info_and_source_tree(&new_branch_info,
opts, &rev,