From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> When the index does not match HEAD, the merge strategies are responsible to detect that condition and abort. The merge-ort-wrappers had code to implement this and meant to copy the error message from merge-recursive but deviated in two ways, both due to the message in merge-recursive being processed by another function that made additional changes: * It added an implicit "error: " prefix * It added an implicit trailing newline Add these things, but do so in a couple extra steps to avoid having translators need to translate another not-quite-identical string. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- merge-ort-wrappers.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/merge-ort-wrappers.c b/merge-ort-wrappers.c index ad041061695..d2c416bb5c0 100644 --- a/merge-ort-wrappers.c +++ b/merge-ort-wrappers.c @@ -10,8 +10,13 @@ static int unclean(struct merge_options *opt, struct tree *head) struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; if (head && repo_index_has_changes(opt->repo, head, &sb)) { - fprintf(stderr, _("Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:\n %s"), + struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT; + strbuf_addstr(&err, "error: "); + strbuf_addf(&err, _("Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:\n %s"), sb.buf); + strbuf_addch(&err, '\n'); + fputs(err.buf, stderr); + strbuf_release(&err); strbuf_release(&sb); return -1; } -- gitgitgadget