Error message from git is hidden when a git command fails #100
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running cherry_picker 2.2.0 for a 3.12 backport, I get subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'log', '--format=%H', '3.12..']' returned non-zero exit status 128.
and nothing else.
I'm left to manually recreate that command line and run it myself to try and figure out what git's damage is. Running git I see fatal: ambiguous argument '3.12..': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
which is better at least, but still not wholly informative (of course it isn't, git is [censored])...
(the real source of my error is likely what shows up when I try this:)
$ git checkout 3.12
error: pathspec '3.12' did not match any file(s) known to git
hint: '3.12' matched more than one remote tracking branch.
...
When git fails, we should at least let git speak for itself (regardless of utility) and not swallow the git error output.