update-index: make D/F conflict error a bit more verbose.

When you remove a directory D that has a tracked file D/F out of the
way to create a file D and try to "git update-index --add D", it used
to say "cannot add" which was not very helpful.  This issues an extra
error message to explain the situation before the final "fatal" message.

Since D/F conflicts are relatively rare event, extra verbosity would
not make things too noisy.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index eae4745d284e00e279b5b8f4b032bdb9ca433984..a602010a69352f774e9446d0106752c0127d917f 100644 (file)
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ int add_cache_entry(struct cache_entry *ce, int option)
        if (!skip_df_check &&
            check_file_directory_conflict(ce, pos, ok_to_replace)) {
                if (!ok_to_replace)
-                       return -1;
+                       return error("'%s' appears as both a file and as a directory", ce->name);
                pos = cache_name_pos(ce->name, ntohs(ce->ce_flags));
                pos = -pos-1;
        }