When there are unmerged paths, you would often get something like
this:
[git.git (pu|MERGING]$ git commit
U copy.c
U wrapper.c
error: commit is not possible because you have unmerged files.
hint: Fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>'
hint: as appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit, or use
hint: 'git commit -a'.
fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.
which is all good and correct, but I am wondering if we can be a bit
more helpful by customizing the message in various ways.
- When all the unmerged paths have their conflicts resolved in the
working tree, we do not have to say "Fix them up in the work
tree,". We can instead say "You seem to have fixed them up in
the work tree already," or something.
- When some of the unmerged paths have their conflicts still in the
working tree, we can name them separately from the ones that have
already been dealt with.
U copy.c
U wrapper.c (conflicts already resolved in the working tree)
- Hasty-and-careless new users will be incorrectly enticed to type
the command given by "or use 'git commit -a'" at the end of this
advice message without thinking. Perhaps it is safer to stop the
sentence at "... and make a commit." and drop that last bit while
there are conflicts still in the working tree files. We should
use the current end-of-message only when all the conflicts have
been resolved in the working tree.
- The "/rm" in "use 'git add/rm <file>'" is often useless, as it is
much rarer to remove a path than adding one. Perhaps show that
part only when there is a conflicted path with stage #2 but not
stage #3 (i.e. they kept what we removed) or vice versa. "add"
needs to stay there no matter what, as that is how we tell the
index "this is the final content".
I am not doing this myself soon, though. Hint, hint...
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