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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-02 15:54:06 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-02 15:54:06 -0700
commit1197c2298bd47c7046b57d92df2fd055051fbe99 (patch)
tree0bd075b22384b0c68bf340097e9a2f0d57740bae /builtin/merge.c
parentMerge branch 'nd/clone-local-with-colon' (diff)
parentmerge: use help_unknown_ref() (diff)
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Merge branch 'vv/help-unknown-ref'
Detect "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo" and give an error message that is more specific than "foo is not something we can merge". * vv/help-unknown-ref: merge: use help_unknown_ref() help: add help_unknown_ref()
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/merge.c')
-rw-r--r--builtin/merge.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 3e2daa37c3..2ebe732896 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -1054,7 +1054,8 @@ static struct commit_list *collect_parents(struct commit *head_commit,
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
struct commit *commit = get_merge_parent(argv[i]);
if (!commit)
- die(_("%s - not something we can merge"), argv[i]);
+ help_unknown_ref(argv[i], "merge",
+ "not something we can merge");
remotes = &commit_list_insert(commit, remotes)->next;
}
*remotes = NULL;