From: greened@obbligato.org
To: Drew Crawford <drew@drewcrawfordapps.com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:44:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqvx3cel.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FBE22FDC-5800-40C8-9778-82DFD27579F6@drewcrawfordapps.com> (Drew Crawford's message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:04:57 -0500")
Drew Crawford <drew@drewcrawfordapps.com> writes:
> I noticed today that if you leave off the branch name from git subtree like so:
>
> $ git subtree add --prefix somewhere -m "adding CDH as subtree" path/to/repo
> warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use --empty
> fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
>
> The error message is not particularly helpful (and seems to actually be in read-subtree?) The solution in my case was to add the branch name on the end of the command.
>
> Ideally it would be better to emit an error-message from a script higher up the calling chain that would be more descriptive about the problem (such as suggesting no branch is specified).--
Good idea. I'll code it up.
-David
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 23:04 git subtree error (just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?) Drew Crawford
2013-01-01 1:44 ` greened [this message]
2013-01-01 2:09 ` greened
2013-01-01 3:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 4:04 ` greened
2013-01-01 5:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 2:39 ` greened
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