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| author | David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> | 2013-01-28 00:52:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-29 22:31:22 (GMT) |
| commit | 5338a6a924b9519dfbd3c92142f83d6ecf925097 (patch) | |
| tree | 8facb8e8b71cf1e47420a8a6f60da7f045335976 /git-mergetool--lib.sh | |
| parent | 80ff2b68f28193af70d4c0bb9d363531eb1c3d23 (diff) | |
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mergetool--lib: improve the help text in guess_merge_tool()
This code path is only activated when the user does not have a valid
configured tool. Add a message to guide new users towards configuring a
default tool.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'git-mergetool--lib.sh')
| -rw-r--r-- | git-mergetool--lib.sh | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh index 2a67383..7edc27f 100644 --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh @@ -240,7 +240,13 @@ show_tool_help () { guess_merge_tool () { list_merge_tool_candidates - echo >&2 "merge tool candidates: $tools" + cat >&2 <<-EOF + + This message is displayed because '$TOOL_MODE.tool' is not configured. + See 'git ${TOOL_MODE}tool --tool-help' or 'git help config' for more details. + 'git ${TOOL_MODE}tool' will now attempt to use one of the following tools: + $tools + EOF # Loop over each candidate and stop when a valid merge tool is found. for i in $tools |