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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2008-09-29 16:04:41 (GMT)
committerShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2008-09-29 16:13:20 (GMT)
commitcbce6c0be30cbaf8c39051f85006d679338a8ddc (patch)
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Clarify commit error message for unmerged files
Currently, trying to use git-commit with unmerged files in the index will show the message "Error building trees", which can be a bit obscure to the end user. This patch makes the error message clearer, and consistent with what git-write-tree reports in a similar situation. Signed-off-by: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index c870037..e2a7e48 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix)
active_cache_tree = cache_tree();
if (cache_tree_update(active_cache_tree,
active_cache, active_nr, 0, 0) < 0) {
- error("Error building trees");
+ error("Error building trees; the index is unmerged?");
return 0;
}