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| -rwxr-xr-x | git-pull.sh | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index 66d73eb59d..fc78592ae0 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -90,8 +90,17 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () { curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/} upstream=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.merge") + remote=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.remote") - if [ -z "$curr_branch" ]; then + if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then + echo "There are no candidates for merging in the refs that you just fetched." + echo "Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no" + echo "matches on the remote end." + elif [ $# -gt 0 ] && [ "$1" != "$remote" ]; then + echo "You asked to pull from the remote '$1', but did not specify" + echo "a branch to merge. Because this is not the default configured remote" + echo "for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line." + elif [ -z "$curr_branch" ]; then echo "You are not currently on a branch, so I cannot use any" echo "'branch.<branchname>.merge' in your configuration file." echo "Please specify which branch you want to merge on the command" @@ -116,9 +125,8 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () { echo echo "See git-config(1) for details." else - echo "Your configuration specifies to merge the ref" - echo "'${upstream#refs/heads/}' from the remote, but no such ref" - echo "was fetched." + echo "Your configuration specifies to merge the ref '${upstream#refs/heads/}' from the" + echo "remote, but no such ref was fetched." fi exit 1 } |