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| author | Clement Mabileau <mabileau.clement@gmail.com> | 2023-04-05 14:43:20 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-04-06 23:11:26 +0300 |
| commit | 4c643fb321db00a9c79e2dcd1fd033681333584b (patch) | |
| tree | 5810a441da4e343975facca1d61fd1b92f086e36 /builtin/branch.c | |
| parent | ae73b2c8f1da39c39335ee76a0f95857712c22a7 (diff) | |
branch: improve error log on branch not found by checking remotes refs
New git users may want to locally delete remote-tracking branches but
don't really understand how they are distinguished from branches by git.
Then one may naively try:
`git branch -d foo/bar` and get a correct error `branch foo/bar not
found` but hard to understand for a newbie, this patch aims to guide one
in such case.
when failing to delete a branch with `git branch -d <branch>` because
of branch not found, try to find a **remote refs** matching `<branch>`
and if so, add an hint:
`Did you forget --remote?` to the error message
Signed-off-by: Clement Mabileau <mabileau.clement@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/branch.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/branch.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c index f63fd45edb..5f035dd596 100644 --- a/builtin/branch.c +++ b/builtin/branch.c @@ -216,10 +216,11 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds, struct string_list refs_to_delete = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP; struct string_list_item *item; int branch_name_pos; + const char *fmt_remotes = "refs/remotes/%s"; switch (kinds) { case FILTER_REFS_REMOTES: - fmt = "refs/remotes/%s"; + fmt = fmt_remotes; /* For subsequent UI messages */ remote_branch = 1; allowed_interpret = INTERPRET_BRANCH_REMOTE; @@ -263,9 +264,25 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int force, int kinds, | RESOLVE_REF_ALLOW_BAD_NAME, &oid, &flags); if (!target) { - error(remote_branch - ? _("remote-tracking branch '%s' not found.") - : _("branch '%s' not found."), bname.buf); + if (remote_branch) { + error(_("remote-tracking branch '%s' not found."), bname.buf); + } else { + char *virtual_name = mkpathdup(fmt_remotes, bname.buf); + char *virtual_target = resolve_refdup(virtual_name, + RESOLVE_REF_READING + | RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE + | RESOLVE_REF_ALLOW_BAD_NAME, + &oid, &flags); + FREE_AND_NULL(virtual_name); + + if (virtual_target) + error(_("branch '%s' not found.\n" + "Did you forget --remote?"), + bname.buf); + else + error(_("branch '%s' not found."), bname.buf); + FREE_AND_NULL(virtual_target); + } ret = 1; continue; } |