cherry-pick: prettify the advice message
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:19:37 +0000 (16:19 -0500)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:11:12 +0000 (22:11 -0800)
It's hard to see the "how to commit" part of this message,
which users may want to cut and paste. On top of that,
having it in paragraph form means that a really long commit
name may cause ugly wrapping. Let's make it prettier, like:

  Automatic cherry-pick failed.  After resolving the conflicts,
  mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
  and commit the result with:

          git commit -c HEAD~23

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin-revert.c

index ad612497a2aba1039ab19976a147738dec100a8a..eff52687a87b45b766e064eede7c2c35b6d133d2 100644 (file)
@@ -208,14 +208,16 @@ static char *help_msg(const char *name)
 
        strbuf_addstr(&helpbuf, "  After resolving the conflicts,\n"
                "mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'\n"
-               "and commit the result.");
+               "and commit the result");
 
        if (action == CHERRY_PICK) {
-               strbuf_addf(&helpbuf,
-                       "  When committing, use the option '-c %s'\n"
-                       "to retain authorship and message.",
+               strbuf_addf(&helpbuf, " with: \n"
+                       "\n"
+                       "        git commit -c %s\n",
                        name);
        }
+       else
+               strbuf_addch(&helpbuf, '.');
        return strbuf_detach(&helpbuf, NULL);
 }