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authorCalvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>2022-08-04 19:51:05 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-08-04 13:43:07 -0700
commit4057523a4061092e9181220d54dca9eadcb75bdc (patch)
tree634bd383bdea35ebba32280959350f723cce7d96 /git-gui/lib/diff.tcl
parent71a8fab31b70c417e8f5b5f716581f89955a7082 (diff)
submodule merge: update conflict error message
When attempting to merge in a superproject with conflicting submodule pointers that cannot be fast-forwarded or trivially resolved, the merge fails and Git prints an error message that accurately describes the failure, but does not provide steps for the user to resolve the error. Git is left in a conflicted state, which requires the user to: 1. merge submodules or update submodules to an already existing commit that reflects the merge 2. add submodules changes to the superproject 3. finish merging superproject These steps are non-obvious for newer submodule users to figure out based on the error message and neither `git submodule status` nor `git status` provide any useful pointers. Update error message to provide steps to resolve submodule merge conflict. Future work could involve adding an advice flag to the message. Although the message is long, it also has the id of the submodule commit that needs to be merged, which could be useful information for the user. Additionally, 5 merge failures that resulted in an early return have been updated to reflect the status of the merge. 1. Null merge base (null o): CONFLICT_SUBMODULE_NULL_MERGE_BASE added as a new conflict type and will print updated error message. 2. Null merge side a (null a): BUG(). See [1] for discussion 3. Null merge side b (null b): BUG(). See [1] for discussion 4. Submodule not checked out: added NEEDSWORK bit 5. Submodule commits not present: added NEEDSWORK bit The errors with a NEEDSWORK bit deserve a more detailed explanation of how to resolve them. See [2] for more context. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BE0qGwUy80dmVszkJQ+tcpfLRW0OZyErymzhZ9+HWY1mw@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqpmhjjwo9.fsf@gitster.g/ Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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