merge: use help_unknown_ref()

Use help.c:help_unknown_ref() instead of die() to provide a
friendlier error message before exiting, when one of the refs
specified in a merge is unknown.

Signed-off-by: Vikrant Varma <vikrant.varma94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Vikrant Varma 2013-05-04 05:34:20 +05:30 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent e56181060e
commit f3f8af0e54

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@ -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;