On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Paul Tan <pyokagan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tweak the error messages printed by die_no_merge_candidates() to take > into account that we may be "rebasing against" rather than "merging > with". > > Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/pull.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c > index c8d673d..15b65a0 100644 > --- a/builtin/pull.c > +++ b/builtin/pull.c > @@ -474,10 +474,12 @@ static void NORETURN die_no_merge_candidates(const char *repo, const char **refs > const char *remote = curr_branch ? curr_branch->remote_name : NULL; > > if (*refspecs) { > - fprintf(stderr, > - _("There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched.\n" > - "Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no\n" > - "matches on the remote end.\n")); > + if (opt_rebase) > + fputs(_("There is no candidate for rebasing against among the refs that you just fetched."), stderr); Is there a reason you switch to fputs, instead of fprintf? $grep -I -r fputs|wc -l 123 $ grep -I -r fprintf|wc -l 689 fputs seems to be used already, though I never came across these parts of the code myself, so I wondered if we had fputs in the code base already. My next guess would have been personal preference, though there seem to be actual reasons[1] why to use fputs. Maybe mention the switch in the commit message (As the formatting is unnecessary, switch to the lighter fputs function)? [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5690979/fputs-vs-fprintf > + else > + fputs(_("There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched."), stderr); > + fputs(_("Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no\n" > + "matches on the remote end."), stderr); > } else if (repo && curr_branch && (!remote || strcmp(repo, remote))) { > fprintf(stderr, > _("You asked to pull from the remote '%s', but did not specify\n" > @@ -485,12 +487,15 @@ static void NORETURN die_no_merge_candidates(const char *repo, const char **refs > "for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.\n"), > repo); > } else if (!curr_branch) { > - fprintf(stderr, > - _("You are not currently on a branch. Please specify which\n" > - "branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details.\n" > - "\n" > - " git pull <remote> <branch>\n" > - "\n")); > + fputs(_("You are not currently on a branch."), stderr); > + if (opt_rebase) > + fputs(_("Please specify which branch you want to rebase against."), stderr); > + else > + fputs(_("Please specify which branch you want to merge with."), stderr); > + fputs(_("See git-pull(1) for details."), stderr); > + fputs("", stderr); > + fputs(" git pull <remote> <branch>", stderr); > + fputs("", stderr); > } else if (!curr_branch->merge_nr) { > struct known_remote *remotes = NULL; > const char *remote_name = "<remote>"; > @@ -499,14 +504,17 @@ static void NORETURN die_no_merge_candidates(const char *repo, const char **refs > if (remotes && !remotes->next) > remote_name = remotes->remote->name; > > + fputs(_("There is no tracking information for the current branch."), stderr); > + if (opt_rebase) > + fputs(_("Please specify which branch you want to rebase against."), stderr); > + else > + fputs(_("Please specify which branch you want to merge with."), stderr); > + fputs(_("See git-pull(1) for details."), stderr); > + fputs("", stderr); > + fputs(" git pull <remote> <branch>", stderr); > + fputs("", stderr); > fprintf(stderr, > - _("There is no tracking information for the current branch.\n" > - "Please specify which branch you want to merge with.\n" > - "See git-pull(1) for details.\n" > - "\n" > - " git pull <remote> <branch>\n" > - "\n" > - "If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:\n" > + _("If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:\n" > "\n" > " git branch --set-upstream-to=%s/<branch> %s\n" > "\n"), > -- > 2.1.4 > -- 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