From 4353b7a881ecb66bf1d17831512112ebf00e4dee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 04:56:50 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] build: improve the format-cpp error message

This change specifies the target branch name instead of leaving that to
the committer to fill in.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42765
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
---
 .github/workflows/linters.yml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/linters.yml b/.github/workflows/linters.yml
index 312ba0b3c9706a..fa761f4f9de044 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linters.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linters.yml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
             echo
             echo 'ERROR: Please run:'
             echo
-            echo '  CLANG_FORMAT_START="$(git merge-base HEAD <target-branch-name>)" make format-cpp'
+            echo "  CLANG_FORMAT_START="$\(git merge-base HEAD ${GITHUB_BASE_REF}\)" make format-cpp"
             echo
             echo 'to format the commits in your branch.'
             exit "$EXIT_CODE"