Make git-pull complain and give advice when there is nothing to merge with
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh
index c3f05f5..74bfc16 100755
--- a/git-pull.sh
+++ b/git-pull.sh
@@ -97,10 +97,24 @@
esac
curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/}
- echo >&2 "Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
- \"branch.${curr_branch}.merge\" does not match any remote branch fetched."
- echo >&2 "No changes."
- exit 0
+ echo >&2 "You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you"
+ echo >&2 "want to merge with, and 'branch.${curr_branch}.merge' in"
+ echo >&2 "your configuration file does not tell me either. Please"
+ echo >&2 "name which branch you want to merge on the command line and"
+ echo >&2 "try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>')."
+ echo >&2 "See git-pull(1) for details on the refspec."
+ echo >&2
+ echo >&2 "If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to"
+ echo >&2 "configure the following variables in your configuration"
+ echo >&2 "file:"
+ echo >&2
+ echo >&2 " branch.${curr_branch}.remote = <nickname>"
+ echo >&2 " branch.${curr_branch}.merge = <remote-ref>"
+ echo >&2 " remote.<nickname>.url = <url>"
+ echo >&2 " remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>"
+ echo >&2
+ echo >&2 "See git-config(1) for details."
+ exit 1
;;
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if test -z "$orig_head"
