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Re: [PATCH] push: error out when the "upstream" semantics does not make sense

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Apr 5, 2012, 20:24 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>  		die(_("You are pushing to remote '%s', which is not the "
> -		      "upstream of your\ncurrent branch '%s'.\n"),
> +		      "upstream of your\ncurrent branch '%s',\n"
> +		      "without telling me to push which local branch to\n"
> +		      " update which remote branch with."),

Sounds overly complex sentence to me. "without telling me what to push" sounded good enough without being long, so I prefered it.

I like accompanying these messages with the way out for the user, so perhaps we can add stg like

"To push the current branch to this remote, run:
  git push <remote> <branch>
"
-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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Message 9 of 11 in “What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2012, #02; Wed, 4)”
  1. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2012
  2. Jeff KingApr 5, 2012
  3. push: error out when the "upstream" semantics does not make senseJunio C Hamano, Apr 5, 2012
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 5, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2012
  6. Jonathan NiederApr 5, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2012
  8. Jonathan NiederApr 5, 2012
  9. Matthieu MoyApr 5, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2012
  11. Matthieu MoyApr 6, 2012

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