[PATCH] merge/resolve: better error messages to lead users to hg update --clean to abandon merges

Augie Fackler durin42 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 15:30:03 CST 2009


On Mar 4, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Bill Barry wrote:

> Augie Fackler wrote:
>> +                           'specific revision\nor abandon'
>> +                           " the merge with 'hg up --clean'"))
> <snip>
>> +        repo.ui.status(_("use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved  
>> file merges "
>> +                         "or 'hg up --clean' to abandon\n"))
>
> IMO you should use the full command name in help text ('hg update -- 
> clean')

I can, but for the second case that'll turn a one-line status message  
into two, which I was hoping to avoid.


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