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    parse-options: print "fatal:" before usage_msg_opt() · 87433261
    Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    Programs may use usage_msg_opt() to print a brief message
    followed by the program usage, and then exit. The message
    isn't prefixed at all, though, so it doesn't match our usual
    error output and is easy to overlook:
    
        $ git clone 1 2 3
        Too many arguments.
    
        usage: git clone [<options>] [--] <repo> [<dir>]
    
        -v, --verbose         be more verbose
        -q, --quiet           be more quiet
        --progress            force progress reporting
        -n, --no-checkout     don't create a checkout
        --bare                create a bare repository
        [...and so on for another 31 lines...]
    
    It looks especially bad when the message starts with an
    option, like:
    
        $ git replace -e
        -e needs exactly one argument
    
        usage: git replace [-f] <object> <replacement>
           or: git replace [-f] --edit <object>
        [...etc...]
    
    Let's put our usual "fatal:" prefix in front of it.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff King <peff@peff.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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