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> --- Notes: v2 * Decided to use fprintf_ln() for the sake of code consistency, and for the added trailing newline. builtin/pull.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c index f5d437a..4e1ab5b 100644 --- a/builtin/pull.c +++ b/builtin/pull.c @@ -439,7 +439,10 @@ 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_ln(stderr, _("There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched.")); + if (opt_rebase) + fprintf_ln(stderr, _("There is no candidate for rebasing against among the refs that you just fetched.")); + else + fprintf_ln(stderr, _("There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched.")); fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no\n" "matches on the remote end.")); } else if (repo && curr_branch && (!remote || strcmp(repo, remote))) { @@ -449,7 +452,10 @@ static void NORETURN die_no_merge_candidates(const char *repo, const char **refs repo); } else if (!curr_branch) { fprintf_ln(stderr, _("You are not currently on a branch.")); - fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Please specify which branch you want to merge with.")); + if (opt_rebase) + fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.")); + else + fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Please specify which branch you want to merge with.")); fprintf_ln(stderr, _("See git-pull(1) for details.")); fprintf(stderr, "\n"); fprintf_ln(stderr, " git pull <remote> <branch>"); @@ -461,7 +467,10 @@ static void NORETURN die_no_merge_candidates(const char *repo, const char **refs remote_name = "<remote>"; fprintf_ln(stderr, _("There is no tracking information for the current branch.")); - fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Please specify which branch you want to merge with.")); + if (opt_rebase) + fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.")); + else + fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Please specify which branch you want to merge with.")); fprintf_ln(stderr, _("See git-pull(1) for details.")); fprintf(stderr, "\n"); fprintf_ln(stderr, " git pull <remote> <branch>"); -- 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