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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-08 22:39:20 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-08 22:39:20 -0800 |
commit | 389e0baa942c4548c5baa60541045b8900113378 (patch) | |
tree | 4ff7c704621c00578ebba46bbda13dd4f9bd8ee3 | |
parent | a876433c5fc27cc14860dea3d608ab4e0ff62380 (diff) | |
parent | 995fc2f7e17fab8dd59f31f25870a0823cdb6f27 (diff) | |
download | git-389e0baa942c4548c5baa60541045b8900113378.tar.gz git-389e0baa942c4548c5baa60541045b8900113378.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'jn/maint-pull-rebase-error-message' into maint
* jn/maint-pull-rebase-error-message:
pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case
-rwxr-xr-x | git-pull.sh | 48 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index fc78592ae..2530f2186 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -88,45 +88,63 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () { esac done + if test true = "$rebase" + then + op_type=rebase + op_prep=against + else + op_type=merge + op_prep=with + fi + curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/} upstream=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.merge") remote=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.remote") if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then - echo "There are no candidates for merging in the refs that you just fetched." + if [ "$rebase" = true ]; then + printf "There is no candidate for rebasing against " + else + printf "There are no candidates for merging " + fi + echo "among 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 '$1', but did not specify" - echo "a branch to merge. Because this is not the default configured remote" + echo "a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote" echo "for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line." elif [ -z "$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" + echo "Please specify which remote branch you want to use on the command" echo "line and try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>')." echo "See git-pull(1) for details." elif [ -z "$upstream" ]; then echo "You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you" - echo "want to merge with, and 'branch.${curr_branch}.merge' in" - echo "your configuration file does not tell me either. Please" - echo "specify which branch you want to merge on the command line and" + echo "want to $op_type $op_prep, and 'branch.${curr_branch}.merge' in" + echo "your configuration file does not tell me, either. Please" + echo "specify which branch you want to use on the command line and" echo "try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>')." echo "See git-pull(1) for details." echo - echo "If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to" - echo "configure the following variables in your configuration" - echo "file:" + echo "If you often $op_type $op_prep the same branch, you may want to" + echo "use something like the following in your configuration file:" + echo + echo " [branch \"${curr_branch}\"]" + echo " remote = <nickname>" + echo " merge = <remote-ref>" + test rebase = "$op_type" && + echo " rebase = true" echo - echo " branch.${curr_branch}.remote = <nickname>" - echo " branch.${curr_branch}.merge = <remote-ref>" - echo " remote.<nickname>.url = <url>" - echo " remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>" + echo " [remote \"<nickname>\"]" + echo " url = <url>" + echo " fetch = <refspec>" echo echo "See git-config(1) for details." else - echo "Your configuration specifies to merge the ref '${upstream#refs/heads/}' from the" - echo "remote, but no such ref was fetched." + echo "Your configuration specifies to $op_type $op_prep the ref '${upstream#refs/heads/}'" + echo "from the remote, but no such ref was fetched." fi exit 1 } |