add: lift the pathspec magic restriction on "add -p"

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 3e2daa37c367560450217cfae5cbb717bfb508af..bad4536a8738237a87e51011f074814bd8b10ba3 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ static int evaluate_result(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * Pretend as if the user told us to merge with the tracking
+ * Pretend as if the user told us to merge with the remote-tracking
  * branch we have for the upstream of the current branch
  */
 static int setup_with_upstream(const char ***argv)
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ static int setup_with_upstream(const char ***argv)
        args = xcalloc(branch->merge_nr + 1, sizeof(char *));
        for (i = 0; i < branch->merge_nr; i++) {
                if (!branch->merge[i]->dst)
-                       die(_("No remote tracking branch for %s from %s"),
+                       die(_("No remote-tracking branch for %s from %s"),
                            branch->merge[i]->src, branch->remote_name);
                args[i] = branch->merge[i]->dst;
        }
@@ -1054,7 +1054,8 @@ static struct commit_list *collect_parents(struct commit *head_commit,
        for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
                struct commit *commit = get_merge_parent(argv[i]);
                if (!commit)
-                       die(_("%s - not something we can merge"), argv[i]);
+                       help_unknown_ref(argv[i], "merge",
+                                        "not something we can merge");
                remotes = &commit_list_insert(commit, remotes)->next;
        }
        *remotes = NULL;