Re: [PATCH] git-pull.sh: overhaul error handling when no candidates are found

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:53:10PM +0100, Jan Krüger wrote:

> * The longish error message displayed when the user uses "git pull" but
>   has no remote/merge/rebase lines configured for the current branch
>   contains example configuration to remedy the situation... but the
>   example uses a rather invalid syntax, using the dotted syntax "git
>   config" accepts, but also "=" separators which are used in the config
>   file format. It also implies that this syntax is valid in git config
>   files. This changes the example to use valid config file syntax.

Personally, I would go the other way: give them something they can cut
and paste on the command line, like:

  git config branch.${curr_branch}.merge ${upstream#refs/heads/}

> +	if [ true = "$rebase" ]; then
> +		op_type=rebase
> +		op_prep=against
> +	else
> +		op_type=merge
> +		op_prep=with
> +	fi
> +
>  	curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/}
> -	upstream=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.merge")
> +	upstream=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.$op_type")

Isn't branch.*.rebase a boolean value?

-Peff