On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:56:21AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Otherwise, git complains about not finding a branch to pull from in > 'branch..merge', which is hardly understandable. While we're there, > reword the sentences slightly. > [...] > + if [ -z "$curr_branch" ]; then > + echo "You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want" > + echo "to merge with, and you are on a detached HEAD, so I cannot" > [...] In this case why can't we just do echo "You are currently not on any branch." or echo "git pull cannot be run without arguments unless you are on a branch." And possibly also something like this: echo "Usage: git pull <repository> <refspec>." echo " See git-pull(1) for details." echo If you need all the verbosity this error otherwise gives, "detached HEAD" is probably going to be confusing? - Finn Arne -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html