send-pack: reword non-fast-forward error message.

Wnen refusing to push a head, we said cryptic "remote 'branch'
object X does not exist on local" or "remote ref 'branch' is not
a strict subset of local ref 'branch'".  That was gittish.

Since the most likely reason this happens is because the pushed
head was not up-to-date, clarify the error message to say that
straight, and suggest pulling first.

First noticed by Johannes and seconded by Andreas.

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

diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c
index 5bc2f01..0d41f9a 100644 (file)
--- a/send-pack.c
+++ b/send-pack.c
@@ -231,23 +231,21 @@ static int send_pack(int in, int out, int nr_refspec, char **refspec)
                if (!force_update &&
                    !is_zero_sha1(ref->old_sha1) &&
                    !ref->force) {
-                       if (!has_sha1_file(ref->old_sha1)) {
-                               error("remote '%s' object %s does not "
-                                     "exist on local",
-                                     ref->name, sha1_to_hex(ref->old_sha1));
-                               ret = -2;
-                               continue;
-                       }
-
-                       /* We assume that local is fsck-clean.  Otherwise
-                        * you _could_ have an old tag which points at
-                        * something you do not have, which may or may not
-                        * be a commit.
-                        */
-                       if (!ref_newer(ref->peer_ref->new_sha1,
+                       if (!has_sha1_file(ref->old_sha1) ||
+                           !ref_newer(ref->peer_ref->new_sha1,
                                       ref->old_sha1)) {
-                               error("remote ref '%s' is not a strict "
-                                     "subset of local ref '%s'.", ref->name,
+                               /* We do not have the remote ref, or
+                                * we know that the remote ref is not
+                                * an ancestor of what we are trying to
+                                * push.  Either way this can be losing
+                                * commits at the remote end and likely
+                                * we were not up to date to begin with.
+                                */
+                               error("remote '%s' is not a strict "
+                                     "subset of local ref '%s'. "
+                                     "maybe you are not up-to-date and "
+                                     "need to pull first?",
+                                     ref->name,
                                      ref->peer_ref->name);
                                ret = -2;
                                continue;