Merge branch 'jk/checkout-attribute-lookup'

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index bd2c36b706955e6b50daaec82f60d13f9c9a9a86..00d17d25d1866323f9e1dffcb334a573f5de5221 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -706,11 +706,11 @@ static int edit_branch_description(const char *branch_name)
        read_branch_desc(&buf, branch_name);
        if (!buf.len || buf.buf[buf.len-1] != '\n')
                strbuf_addch(&buf, '\n');
-       strbuf_addf(&buf,
-                   "# Please edit the description for the branch\n"
-                   "#   %s\n"
-                   "# Lines starting with '#' will be stripped.\n",
-                   branch_name);
+       strbuf_commented_addf(&buf,
+                   "Please edit the description for the branch\n"
+                   "  %s\n"
+                   "Lines starting with '%c' will be stripped.\n",
+                   branch_name, comment_line_char);
        fp = fopen(git_path(edit_description), "w");
        if ((fwrite(buf.buf, 1, buf.len, fp) < buf.len) || fclose(fp)) {
                strbuf_release(&buf);
@@ -889,6 +889,17 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        } else if (new_upstream) {
                struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
 
+               if (argc > 1)
+                       die(_("too many branches to set new upstream"));
+
+               if (!branch) {
+                       if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+                               die(_("could not set upstream of HEAD to %s when "
+                                     "it does not point to any branch."),
+                                   new_upstream);
+                       die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);
+               }
+
                if (!ref_exists(branch->refname))
                        die(_("branch '%s' does not exist"), branch->name);
 
@@ -901,6 +912,16 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
                struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+               if (argc > 1)
+                       die(_("too many branches to unset upstream"));
+
+               if (!branch) {
+                       if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+                               die(_("could not unset upstream of HEAD when "
+                                     "it does not point to any branch."));
+                       die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);
+               }
+
                if (!branch_has_merge_config(branch)) {
                        die(_("Branch '%s' has no upstream information"), branch->name);
                }
@@ -916,6 +937,12 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                int branch_existed = 0, remote_tracking = 0;
                struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+               if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
+                       die(_("it does not make sense to create 'HEAD' manually"));
+
+               if (!branch)
+                       die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);
+
                if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH)
                        die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name"));