Improve error message for aborted clone

[code/vcsh.git] / vcsh

diff --git a/vcsh b/vcsh
index 0df962b0b6cc48def7ef63e95243c8e91d92ab35..c1b4874f5e78bcbbe5a8c8ccb2276f3ed25d23d9 100755 (executable)
--- a/vcsh
+++ b/vcsh
@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@
 SELF=$(basename $0)
 
 [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] && XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
-for check_directory in "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh" "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/repo.d"
+[ -z "$VCSH_BASE" ]       && VCSH_BASE="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/repo.d"
+for check_directory in "$VCSH_BASE"
 do
        if [ ! -d "$check_directory" ]; then
                if [ -e "$check_directory" ]; then
                        echo "$SELF: error: $check_directory exists but is not a directory" >&2
                        exit 2
                else
-                       mkdir "$check_directory" || (echo "$SELF: error: could not create $check_directory" >&2; exit 2)
+                       mkdir -p "$check_directory" || (echo "$SELF: error: could not create $check_directory" >&2; exit 2)
                fi
        fi
 done
 
-VCSH_BASE="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/repo.d"
 
 debug() {
        [ -n "$VCSH_DEBUG" ] && echo "$SELF: debug: $1"
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ elif [ "$1" = 'clone' ]; then
        done
        [ "$VCSH_CONFLICT" = '1' ] &&
                echo "$SELF: fatal: will stop after fetching and not try to merge!\n" &&
+               echo "  Once this situation has been resolved, run 'vcsh run <foo> git pull' to finish cloning.\n" &&
                exit 3
        git merge origin/master
 #      vcsh use $REPO_NAME