From 8fc293cb1e639c9ea555a8e95e3a7801fc1d1be8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Federico Mena Quintero Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:36:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Make git-pull complain and give advice when there is nothing to merge with Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git-pull.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index c3f05f56d..74bfc1674 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -97,10 +97,24 @@ case "$merge_head" in esac curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/} - echo >&2 "Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option - \"branch.${curr_branch}.merge\" does not match any remote branch fetched." - echo >&2 "No changes." - exit 0 + echo >&2 "You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you" + echo >&2 "want to merge with, and 'branch.${curr_branch}.merge' in" + echo >&2 "your configuration file does not tell me either. Please" + echo >&2 "name which branch you want to merge on the command line and" + echo >&2 "try again (e.g. 'git pull ')." + echo >&2 "See git-pull(1) for details on the refspec." + echo >&2 + echo >&2 "If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to" + echo >&2 "configure the following variables in your configuration" + echo >&2 "file:" + echo >&2 + echo >&2 " branch.${curr_branch}.remote = " + echo >&2 " branch.${curr_branch}.merge = " + echo >&2 " remote..url = " + echo >&2 " remote..fetch = " + echo >&2 + echo >&2 "See git-config(1) for details." + exit 1 ;; ?*' '?*) if test -z "$orig_head" -- 2.26.2