Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  Documentation: cloning to empty directory is allowed
  Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper
  git config: clarify --add and --get-color
  archive-tar.c: squelch a type mismatch warning

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/git-merge-one-file.sh b/git-merge-one-file.sh
index e1eb963266..9c2c1b7202 100755
--- a/git-merge-one-file.sh
+++ b/git-merge-one-file.sh
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 	src1=`git-unpack-file $2`
 	git merge-file "$src1" "$orig" "$src2"
 	ret=$?
+	msg=
+	if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
+		msg='content conflict'
+	fi
 
 	# Create the working tree file, using "our tree" version from the
 	# index, and then store the result of the merge.
@@ -120,7 +124,10 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 	rm -f -- "$orig" "$src1" "$src2"
 
 	if [ "$6" != "$7" ]; then
-		echo "ERROR: Permissions conflict: $5->$6,$7."
+		if [ -n "$msg" ]; then
+			msg="$msg, "
+		fi
+		msg="${msg}permissions conflict: $5->$6,$7"
 		ret=1
 	fi
 	if [ "$1" = '' ]; then
@@ -128,7 +135,7 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
 	fi
 
 	if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
-		echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4"
+		echo "ERROR: $msg in $4"
 		exit 1
 	fi
 	exec git update-index -- "$4"