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authorSjors Provoost <sjors@sprovoost.nl>2020-06-12 12:33:00 +0200
committerSjors Provoost <sjors@sprovoost.nl>2020-06-12 13:31:42 +0200
commita4a3fc4cd2e6f53cdffcc2962fd152a4e40c7413 (patch)
tree53c5e80fdb38756469c7a7404ca2c6debc823b7b /test/lint
parent6762a627ecb89ba8d4ed81a049a5d802e6dd75c2 (diff)
doc: improve subtree check instructions
Diffstat (limited to 'test/lint')
-rw-r--r--test/lint/README.md6
-rwxr-xr-xtest/lint/git-subtree-check.sh2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/test/lint/README.md b/test/lint/README.md
index 6b95cc3540..d15c061288 100644
--- a/test/lint/README.md
+++ b/test/lint/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ maintained:
* for `src/crypto/ctaes`: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/ctaes.git (branch master)
* for `src/crc32c`: https://github.com/google/crc32c.git (branch master)
+To do so, add the upstream repository as remote:
+
+```
+git remote add --fetch secp256k1 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1.git
+```
+
Usage: `git-subtree-check.sh DIR (COMMIT)`
`COMMIT` may be omitted, in which case `HEAD` is used.
diff --git a/test/lint/git-subtree-check.sh b/test/lint/git-subtree-check.sh
index caa7affc63..5a0500df25 100755
--- a/test/lint/git-subtree-check.sh
+++ b/test/lint/git-subtree-check.sh
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ fi
# get the tree in the subtree commit referred to
if [ "d$(git cat-file -t $rev 2>/dev/null)" != dcommit ]; then
- echo "subtree commit $rev unavailable: cannot compare" >&2
+ echo "subtree commit $rev unavailable: cannot compare. Did you add and fetch the remote?" >&2
exit
fi
tree_subtree=$(git show -s --format="%T" $rev)