Re: warning merge message

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 22, 2006, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <200612222142.15489.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wms79mg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Friday 22 December 2006 07:00, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> >> Can we please eliminate this message:
> >> Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
> >>          "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
> >
> > The above message was meant only for "git pull", but was leaked
> > even when you did "git fetch"; it was a bug and was corrected
> > already (hopefully).
> 
> Gaah... it turns out that it was not fixed properly.

Sorry, I am missing something. What is the exact problem that goes wrong here?

The message is printed when "git pull [args]" does not result in any merge with current branch. What is wrong about this? But a "git pull ..." always should lead to some merge in the end in every possible work flow, or should it not?

Josef