Error code

These refs cannot be merged

The source and target are the same branch, or share no history to merge from.

Fig. 03 Ratchet and pawlThe wheel turns freely one way, and the pawl stops it turning back.

Code: CANNOT_MERGE
Management API: 400

What to do

Merge two different branches that share an ancestor.

The response

Every refusal is an application/problem+json document. Its detail says what went wrong in that request; its type is this page.

{
  "code": "CANNOT_MERGE",
  "type": "https://coho-cms.com/errors/cannot-merge",
  "title": "These refs cannot be merged",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "What went wrong in this request, in a sentence.",
  "instance": "/v1/projects/…"
}

Every code

The error codes, in a table with a filter.