From: Vikrant Varma Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 00:04:18 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Show suggested refs when ref unknown Message-ID: <1367625860-20746-1-git-send-email-vikrant.varma94@gmail.com> If origin/foo exists, but foo doesn't: $ git merge foo fatal: foo - not something we can merge This patch series improves the error message. If a remote branch exists with the same name, it now says: $ git merge foo fatal: foo - not something we can merge Did you mean this? origin/foo It does this by adding a new help function, help_unknown_ref, that takes care of printing the more friendly error message, and modifies builtin/merge.c to use it. This function can easily be used by other operations involving refs that don't exist instead of providing blanket failure error messages (eg. git checkout foo). Vikrant Varma (2): help: add help_unknown_ref merge: use help_unknown_ref builtin/merge.c | 3 ++- help.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ help.h | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.7.10.4