When cherry-pick fails after picking a large series of commits, it can
be hard to pick out the error message and advice. Clarify the error
and prefix it with “error: ” to help.
Before:
Automatic cherry-pick failed. [...advice...]
After:
error: could not apply
7ab78c9... Do something neat.
[...advice...]
Noticed-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Encouraged-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
}
if (res) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Automatic %s failed.%s\n",
- mebuf.buf, help_msg());
+ error("could not %s %s... %s",
+ action == REVERT ? "revert" : "apply",
+ find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV),
+ msg.subject);
+ fprintf(stderr, help_msg());
rerere(allow_rerere_auto);
} else {
if (!no_commit)