diff -r b4c0f8d5edd2 -r 27addd7e8eca mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Nov 01 20:39:37 2016 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Oct 31 17:12:32 2016 -0500
@@ -7077,7 +7077,8 @@
                 raise error.Abort(_('uncommitted merge'))
             bheads = repo.branchheads()
             if not opts.get('force') and bheads and p1 not in bheads:
-                raise error.Abort(_('not at a branch head (use -f to force)'))
+                raise error.Abort(_('working directory is not at a branch head '
+                                    '(use -f to force)'))
         r = scmutil.revsingle(repo, rev_).node()
 
         if not message: