Use help.c:help_unknown_ref instead of die to provide a friendlier error
message before exiting, when one of the refs specified in a merge is unknown.
Signed-off-by: Vikrant Varma <vikrant.varma94@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/merge.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 3e2daa3..2ebe732 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -1054,7 +1054,8 @@ static struct commit_list *collect_parents(struct commit *head_commit,
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
struct commit *commit = get_merge_parent(argv[i]);
if (!commit)
- die(_("%s - not something we can merge"), argv[i]);
+ help_unknown_ref(argv[i], "merge",
+ "not something we can merge");
remotes = &commit_list_insert(commit, remotes)->next;
}
*remotes = NULL;
--
1.7.10.4
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