From b8c74690b20b7c4dd405f71d63bab325447356da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:15:47 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] revert: improve error message for cherry-pick during
cherry-pick
In the spirit of v1.6.3.3~3^2 (refuse to merge during a merge,
2009-07-01), "git cherry-pick" refuses to start a new cherry-pick when
in the middle of an existing conflicted cherry-pick in the following
sequence:
1. git cherry-pick HEAD..origin
2. resolve conflicts
3. git cherry-pick HEAD..origin (instead of "git cherry-pick
--continue", by mistake)
Good. However, the error message on attempting step 3 is more
convoluted than necessary:
$ git cherry-pick HEAD..origin
error: .git/sequencer already exists.
error: A cherry-pick or revert is in progress.
hint: Use --continue to continue the operation
hint: or --quit to forget about it
fatal: cherry-pick failed
Clarify by removing the redundant first "error:" message, simplifying
the advice, and using lower-case and no full stops to be consistent
with other commands that prefix their messages with "error:", so it
becomes
error: a cherry-pick or revert is already in progress
hint: try "git cherry-pick (--continue | --quit)"
fatal: cherry-pick failed
The "fatal: cherry-pick failed" line seems unnecessary, too, but
that can be fixed some other day.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
builtin/revert.c | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/revert.c b/builtin/revert.c
index 2346cafba..1d112e4ce 100644
--- a/builtin/revert.c
+++ b/builtin/revert.c
@@ -846,8 +846,11 @@ static int create_seq_dir(void)
{
const char *seq_dir = git_path(SEQ_DIR);
- if (file_exists(seq_dir))
- return error(_("%s already exists."), seq_dir);
+ if (file_exists(seq_dir)) {
+ error(_("a cherry-pick or revert is already in progress"));
+ advise(_("try \"git cherry-pick (--continue | --quit)\""));
+ return -1;
+ }
else if (mkdir(seq_dir, 0777) < 0)
die_errno(_("Could not create sequencer directory %s"), seq_dir);
return 0;
@@ -991,12 +994,8 @@ static int pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts)
*/
walk_revs_populate_todo(&todo_list, opts);
- if (create_seq_dir() < 0) {
- error(_("A cherry-pick or revert is in progress."));
- advise(_("Use --continue to continue the operation"));
- advise(_("or --quit to forget about it"));
+ if (create_seq_dir() < 0)
return -1;
- }
if (get_sha1("HEAD", sha1)) {
if (opts->action == REVERT)
return error(_("Can't revert as initial commit"));
--
2.26.2