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index 66d73eb59d0ce880df9fcf2d34ecc3069dab189d..fc78592ae04283db2af633ec080f99c6404ceda7 100755 (executable)
@@ -90,8 +90,17 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () {
 
        curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/}
        upstream=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.merge")
+       remote=$(git config "branch.$curr_branch.remote")
 
-       if [ -z "$curr_branch" ]; then
+       if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
+               echo "There are no candidates for merging in the refs that you just fetched."
+               echo "Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no"
+               echo "matches on the remote end."
+       elif [ $# -gt 0 ] && [ "$1" != "$remote" ]; then
+               echo "You asked to pull from the remote '$1', but did not specify"
+               echo "a branch to merge. Because this is not the default configured remote"
+               echo "for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line."
+       elif [ -z "$curr_branch" ]; then
                echo "You are not currently on a branch, so I cannot use any"
                echo "'branch.<branchname>.merge' in your configuration file."
                echo "Please specify which branch you want to merge on the command"
@@ -116,9 +125,8 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () {
                echo
                echo "See git-config(1) for details."
        else
-               echo "Your configuration specifies to merge the ref"
-               echo "'${upstream#refs/heads/}' from the remote, but no such ref"
-               echo "was fetched."
+               echo "Your configuration specifies to merge the ref '${upstream#refs/heads/}' from the"
+               echo "remote, but no such ref was fetched."
        fi
        exit 1
 }