merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.

The commit-before-pull is well accepted in the DVCS community, but is
confusing some new users. This should get them back in the right way when
the problem occurs.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/advice.c b/advice.c
index ae4b1e8..cb666ac 100644
--- a/advice.c
+++ b/advice.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 int advice_push_nonfastforward = 1;
 int advice_status_hints = 1;
+int advice_commit_before_merge = 1;
 
 static struct {
 	const char *name;
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ static struct {
 } advice_config[] = {
 	{ "pushnonfastforward", &advice_push_nonfastforward },
 	{ "statushints", &advice_status_hints },
+	{ "commitbeforemerge", &advice_commit_before_merge },
 };
 
 int git_default_advice_config(const char *var, const char *value)