There is really no need for four branches of nearly identical messages when we can store the differences into small variables before printing. It does require a few allocations this way, but makes the code much easier to parse for human readers. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- merge-recursive.c | 36 +++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c index 273ee79afa..3bd727995b 100644 --- a/merge-recursive.c +++ b/merge-recursive.c @@ -1290,31 +1290,17 @@ static int handle_change_delete(struct merge_options *o, if (!ret) ret = update_file(o, 0, o_oid, o_mode, update_path); } else { - if (!alt_path) { - if (!old_path) { - output(o, 1, _("CONFLICT (%s/delete): %s deleted in %s " - "and %s in %s. Version %s of %s left in tree."), - change, path, delete_branch, change_past, - change_branch, change_branch, path); - } else { - output(o, 1, _("CONFLICT (%s/delete): %s deleted in %s " - "and %s to %s in %s. Version %s of %s left in tree."), - change, old_path, delete_branch, change_past, path, - change_branch, change_branch, path); - } - } else { - if (!old_path) { - output(o, 1, _("CONFLICT (%s/delete): %s deleted in %s " - "and %s in %s. Version %s of %s left in tree at %s."), - change, path, delete_branch, change_past, - change_branch, change_branch, path, alt_path); - } else { - output(o, 1, _("CONFLICT (%s/delete): %s deleted in %s " - "and %s to %s in %s. Version %s of %s left in tree at %s."), - change, old_path, delete_branch, change_past, path, - change_branch, change_branch, path, alt_path); - } - } + const char *deleted_path = old_path ? old_path : path; + char *supp1 = xstrfmt(old_path ? " to %s" : "", path); + char *supp2 = xstrfmt(alt_path ? " at %s" : "", alt_path); + + output(o, 1, _("CONFLICT (%s/delete): %s deleted in %s " + "and %s%s in %s. Version %s of %s left in tree%s."), + change, deleted_path, delete_branch, change_past, + supp1, change_branch, change_branch, path, supp2); + free(supp1); + free(supp2); + /* * No need to call update_file() on path when change_branch == * o->branch1 && !alt_path, since that would needlessly touch -- 2.17.0.847.g20b8963732