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Bug 343638

Summary: Put a better message when branch.master.merge entry is missing
Product: [Technology] EGit Reporter: Maxime Jeanmart <maxime.jeanmart>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: gunnar, robin
Version: 0.11   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Maxime Jeanmart CLA 2011-04-22 04:11:54 EDT 
If the branch.master.merge entry is not specified in configuration, you get the following error message: "no values for key branch.master.merge" found in configuration". From that message, it's not easy to know what to do to solve the issue.
It's probably possible to improve usability by adding some explanations like "add the branch.master.merge entry in the repository config file" or something like that. With an example, it's even better. (just a suggestion, of course)
Comment 1 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2011-04-23 16:53:59 EDT 
IMO, if there is just one remote branch in the repo EGit should be even smarter and assume that the user wanted to pull from this branch. That would improve usability even more.
Comment 2 Robin Stocker CLA 2013-09-28 12:04:11 EDT 
Even better, we should show a wizard which helps with setting up the "upstream", see bug 343593.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 343593 ***