bzr merge NON-EXISTENT-RELPATH

[Martin Pool]

On 15 April 2011 04:04, Denys Duchier <denys.duchier at univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
>
>>  bzr merge just/one/file
>>
>> Thinks you want to merge the changes from the current tree into itself.
>> I think it would be reasonable to check if target_tree == this_tree and
>> do something special there.
>
> Actually I think that bzr should complain first that just/one/file does
> not exist if that's the case, and then complain about target_tree ==
> this_tree if that's the case.  IMHO, the error messages would make more
> sense that way.

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/330063> asks for this to be made
more clear.  There is some logic to it but the message is unhelpful.

Martin