blame: improve diagnosis for "--reverse NEW"

diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index e982fb81379f57152e34eeda706a57fa1ea4c143..a027b8a6075dd2e300b307c4c20f41a4fbfc9566 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -2307,6 +2307,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct diff_options *opt,
        unsigned mode;
        struct strbuf msg = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+       read_cache();
        time(&now);
        commit = alloc_commit_node();
        commit->object.parsed = 1;
@@ -2465,14 +2466,14 @@ static char *prepare_initial(struct scoreboard *sb)
                if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT)
                        die("Non commit %s?", revs->pending.objects[i].name);
                if (sb->final)
-                       die("More than one commit to dig down to %s and %s?",
+                       die("More than one commit to dig up from, %s and %s?",
                            revs->pending.objects[i].name,
                            final_commit_name);
                sb->final = (struct commit *) obj;
                final_commit_name = revs->pending.objects[i].name;
        }
        if (!final_commit_name)
-               die("No commit to dig down to?");
+               die("No commit to dig up from?");
        return xstrdup(final_commit_name);
 }