commit 1e4b2887a760e84f3b453c9caadcae67b701eac9
author Peter Kjellerstedt <pkj@axis.com> Tue Dec 02 21:00:12 2025 +0100
committer LUCI <gerrit-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com> Wed Dec 03 08:48:11 2025 -0800
tree 0fa6d3672c4901a8506beaa3dd613af6136c6858
parent 31b4b19387f54dd4e7cd46878efecc2ac5860dd3

project: Make the error message more logical when a linkfile fail

Due to the odd naming of the arguments to symlink(), the error when it
failed to create a symbolic link was misleading.

Change-Id: I1d0f30ade5970d80186f13e01c426b066cd1062f
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/532541
Commit-Queue: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Tested-by: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Mak <gavinmak@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>

project.py

diff --git a/project.py b/project.py
index b65cb1a..d3c53c1 100644
--- a/project.py
+++ b/project.py
@@ -461,9 +461,7 @@
                         os.makedirs(dest_dir)
                 platform_utils.symlink(relSrc, absDest)
             except OSError:
-                logger.error(
-                    "error: Cannot link file %s to %s", relSrc, absDest
-                )
+                logger.error("error: Cannot symlink %s to %s", absDest, relSrc)
 
     def _Link(self):
         """Link the self.src & self.dest paths.