branch: change the error messages to be more meaningful

The error messages shown when the branch command is misused
by supplying it wrong number of parameters wasn't meaningful.
That's because it used the the phrase "too many branches"
assuming all parameters to be "valid" branch names. It's not
always the case as exemplified below,

$ git branch
foo
* master

$ git branch -m foo foo old
fatal: too many branches for a rename operation

Change the messages to be more general thus making no assumptions
about the "parameters".

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 16d391b407c9fa688b48a3e28f77800dcc1e2e0c..6aba134db884d3178ebfa5d12608488f16989e27 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -711,12 +711,12 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                else if (argc == 2)
                        rename_branch(argv[0], argv[1], rename > 1);
                else
-                       die(_("too many branches for a rename operation"));
+                       die(_("too many arguments for a rename operation"));
        } else if (new_upstream) {
                struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
 
                if (argc > 1)
-                       die(_("too many branches to set new upstream"));
+                       die(_("too many arguments to set new upstream"));
 
                if (!branch) {
                        if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
                if (argc > 1)
-                       die(_("too many branches to unset upstream"));
+                       die(_("too many arguments to unset upstream"));
 
                if (!branch) {
                        if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))