commit fd79e0d2483655befd21786b389cae56fa0f2b99
author dpranke@chromium.org <dpranke@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98> Fri Apr 12 21:34:32 2013 +0000
committer dpranke@chromium.org <dpranke@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98> Fri Apr 12 21:34:32 2013 +0000
tree 3c63b846d40a06a1b21ffff19624c7ba4fd06ebf
parent 3cdcf56c584eebd20d798045b923b89b29436def

improve the error message fetch returns if a checkout exists

to tell the user how to recover from partial checkouts and
what to do with an existing checkout.

R=iannucci@chromium.org
BUG=230691

Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/13945020

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/tools/depot_tools@194019 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

fetch.py

diff --git a/fetch.py b/fetch.py
index 6879558..aca0f88 100755
--- a/fetch.py
+++ b/fetch.py
@@ -259,8 +259,11 @@
   except KeyError:
     return 1
   if checkout.exists():
-    print 'You appear to already have this checkout.'
-    print 'Aborting to avoid clobbering your work.'
+    print 'You appear to already have a checkout. "fetch" is used only'
+    print 'to get new checkouts. Use "gclient sync" to update the checkout.'
+    print
+    print 'Fetch also does not yet deal with partial checkouts, so if fetch'
+    print 'failed, delete the checkout and start over (crbug.com/230691).'
     return 1
   return checkout.init()