errors: "strict subset" -> "ancestor"

The term "ancestor" is a bit more intuitive (and more consistent with
the documentation) than the term "strict subset".

Also, remove superfluous "ref", capitalize, and add some carriage
returns, changing:

    error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?
    error: failed to push to 'ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/git.git'

to:

    error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not an ancestor of
    local 'refs/heads/master'.
    Maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?
    error: failed to push to 'ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/git.git'

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-branch.c b/builtin-branch.c
index d6d5cff6b8cac21f2eb748751f9530e3b18c7246..fbd90e42d111c698d33305570c8f1988998a3c70 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-branch.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds)
 
                if (!force &&
                    !in_merge_bases(rev, &head_rev, 1)) {
-                       error("The branch '%s' is not a strict subset of "
+                       error("The branch '%s' is not an ancestor of "
                                "your current HEAD.\n"
                                "If you are sure you want to delete it, "
                                "run 'git branch -D %s'.", argv[i], argv[i]);

diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
index c02a3af63450fd7cf22118b481b4f0d9dd35b156..9314621a11030e66eeba7f0da6b88a813e1ba759 100644 (file)
--- a/http-push.c
+++ b/http-push.c
@@ -2241,7 +2241,11 @@ static int delete_remote_branch(char *pattern, int force)
 
                /* Remote branch must be an ancestor of remote HEAD */
                if (!verify_merge_base(head_sha1, remote_ref->old_sha1)) {
-                       return error("The branch '%s' is not a strict subset of your current HEAD.\nIf you are sure you want to delete it, run:\n\t'git http-push -D %s %s'", remote_ref->name, remote->url, pattern);
+                       return error("The branch '%s' is not an ancestor "
+                                    "of your current HEAD.\n"
+                                    "If you are sure you want to delete it,"
+                                    " run:\n\t'git http-push -D %s %s'",
+                                    remote_ref->name, remote->url, pattern);
                }
        }
 
@@ -2417,16 +2421,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                        if (!has_sha1_file(ref->old_sha1) ||
                            !ref_newer(ref->peer_ref->new_sha1,
                                       ref->old_sha1)) {
-                               /* We do not have the remote ref, or
+                               /*
+                                * We do not have the remote ref, or
                                 * we know that the remote ref is not
                                 * an ancestor of what we are trying to
                                 * push.  Either way this can be losing
                                 * commits at the remote end and likely
                                 * we were not up to date to begin with.
                                 */
-                               error("remote '%s' is not a strict "
-                                     "subset of local ref '%s'. "
-                                     "maybe you are not up-to-date and "
+                               error("remote '%s' is not an ancestor of\n"
+                                     "local '%s'.\n"
+                                     "Maybe you are not up-to-date and "
                                      "need to pull first?",
                                      ref->name,
                                      ref->peer_ref->name);

diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c
index 5e127a1b7b33bdc9aaafc80873c5c987573566bd..b74fd454f2f09d23ffde7db015d4a7458dfcd348 100644 (file)
--- a/send-pack.c
+++ b/send-pack.c
@@ -297,9 +297,9 @@ static int send_pack(int in, int out, struct remote *remote, int nr_refspec, cha
                                 * commits at the remote end and likely
                                 * we were not up to date to begin with.
                                 */
-                               error("remote '%s' is not a strict "
-                                     "subset of local ref '%s'. "
-                                     "maybe you are not up-to-date and "
+                               error("remote '%s' is not an ancestor of\n"
+                                     " local  '%s'.\n"
+                                     " Maybe you are not up-to-date and "
                                      "need to pull first?",
                                      ref->name,
                                      ref->peer_ref->name);