From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Improve error message for branching an existing branch
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:36:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902190736.24402.johnflux@gmail.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
---
branch.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 1f00e44..86ac293 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ void create_branch(const char *head,
if (resolve_ref(ref.buf, sha1, 1, NULL)) {
if (!force)
- die("A branch named '%s' already exists.", name);
+ die("A branch named '%s' already exists.\n"
+ "Maybe you wanted to change to this branch with: git checkout '%s'", name, name);
else if (!is_bare_repository() && !strcmp(head, name))
die("Cannot force update the current branch.");
forcing = 1;
--
1.6.2.rc1.3.g7d31b.dirty
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