[PATCH] errors: "strict subset" -> "ancestor"

From

JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>

Date

Nov 3, 2007, 02:39 UTC

Message-ID

<20071103023944.GA15379@fieldses.org>

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

	error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?
	error: failed to push to 'ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/git.git'

to:

	error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not an ancestor of
	 local 'refs/heads/master'.
	 Maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?
	error: failed to push to 'ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/git.git'

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
 builtin-branch.c |    2 +-
 http-push.c      |    8 ++++----
 send-pack.c      |    6 +++---
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-branch.c b/builtin-branch.c
index 3da8b55..e8de27e 100644
--- a/builtin-branch.c
+++ b/builtin-branch.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds)
 
 		if (!force &&
 		    !in_merge_bases(rev, &head_rev, 1)) {
-			error("The branch '%s' is not a strict subset of "
+			error("The branch '%s' is not an ancestor of "
 				"your current HEAD.\n"
 				"If you are sure you want to delete it, "
 				"run 'git branch -D %s'.", argv[i], argv[i]);
diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
index c02a3af..5960d7c 100644
--- a/http-push.c
+++ b/http-push.c
@@ -2241,7 +2241,7 @@ static int delete_remote_branch(char *pattern, int force)
 
 		/* Remote branch must be an ancestor of remote HEAD */
 		if (!verify_merge_base(head_sha1, remote_ref->old_sha1)) {
-			return error("The branch '%s' is not a strict subset of your current HEAD.\nIf you are sure you want to delete it, run:\n\t'git http-push -D %s %s'", remote_ref->name, remote->url, pattern);
+			return error("The branch '%s' is not an ancestor of your current HEAD.\nIf you are sure you want to delete it, run:\n\t'git http-push -D %s %s'", remote_ref->name, remote->url, pattern);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -2424,9 +2424,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 				 * commits at the remote end and likely
 				 * we were not up to date to begin with.
 				 */
-				error("remote '%s' is not a strict "
-				      "subset of local ref '%s'. "
-				      "maybe you are not up-to-date and "
+				error("remote '%s' is not an ancestor of\n"
+				      " local '%s'.\n"
+				      " Maybe you are not up-to-date and "
 				      "need to pull first?",
 				      ref->name,
 				      ref->peer_ref->name);
diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c
index 5e127a1..b74fd45 100644
--- a/send-pack.c
+++ b/send-pack.c
@@ -297,9 +297,9 @@ static int send_pack(int in, int out, struct remote *remote, int nr_refspec, cha
 				 * commits at the remote end and likely
 				 * we were not up to date to begin with.
 				 */
-				error("remote '%s' is not a strict "
-				      "subset of local ref '%s'. "
-				      "maybe you are not up-to-date and "
+				error("remote '%s' is not an ancestor of\n"
+				      " local  '%s'.\n"
+				      " Maybe you are not up-to-date and "
 				      "need to pull first?",
 				      ref->name,
 				      ref->peer_ref->name);

-- 
1.5.3.5.475.g477d-dirty