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-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;