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On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 at 07:54, Scott Baker <scott@perturb.org> wrote: > I love both of these suggestions. Let me put on my Perl novice hat and > respond directly: > > 1. > > One of my favorite things about git is that when something is wrong > with your working state, or you issue an incorrect command, git tells > you not only that there is an error, but also what the most likely fix is. > This has saved me numerous times from having to stop what Iâm doing and > Google the specific error. Simple one line errors suggestions like that can > save a lot of time and frustrations. > > indeed - and there's precedent for this in the `(you may need to install the XYZ module)` error shown when trying to use/require a module that isn't found. RFC seems unnecessary for this - might as well go straight for the Github pull request? As long as the extra text goes at the end of the warning, the change does not seem overly controversial!Thread Previous | Thread Next