Re: [PATCH v2] git-pull.sh: better warning message for "git pull" on detached head.

From: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2009, 10:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20090407104145.GA22658@pvv.org>
In-Reply-To: <1239098181-10360-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:56:21AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Otherwise, git complains about not finding a branch to pull from in
> 'branch..merge', which is hardly understandable. While we're there,
> reword the sentences slightly.
> [...]
> +	if [ -z "$curr_branch" ]; then
> +		echo "You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want"
> +		echo "to merge with, and you are on a detached HEAD, so I cannot"
> [...]

In this case why can't we just do

echo "You are currently not on any branch."

or

echo "git pull cannot be run without arguments unless you are on a branch."

And possibly also something like this:

echo "Usage: git pull <repository> <refspec>." echo " See git-pull(1) for details." echo

If you need all the verbosity this error otherwise gives, "detached HEAD" is probably going to be confusing?

- Finn Arne