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StGIT unhelpfulness

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
May 22, 2007, 11:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20070522111603.GH4489@pasky.or.cz>
  Hi,
  I tried to stg pull to my git repository at repo.or.cz, but stg pull
only laconically announced
	stg pull: Rebasing would possibly lose data

and left me with a confused stare. The same with popping all the patches first, so there is actually nothing _to_ rebase, but it still fails.

  Five minutes of peeking at the stgit code later, I think this is
because I sometimes do stg pull (now) and sometimes stg pop -a, cg
update, stg push -a when I'm feeling nostalgic. orig-base doesn't get
updated and stgit gets unhappy, but frankly, I don't even get _why_ does
it need to record and check orig-base - how does it matter?
  Besides, when it doesn't like it, it should give me some more helpful
error message than just the cryptic above...
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
		-- Samuel Beckett
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  1. Petr BaudisMay 22, 2007
  2. Karl HasselströmMay 22, 2007
  3. Karl HasselströmMay 22, 2007

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