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Re: Confusing git pull error message

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 13, 2009, 21:36 UTC
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<20090913213609.GA6993@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:57:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > What you have here is precisely what we observed. But I think one of the
> > complaints was to say more explicitly "that ref doesn't exist on the
> > remote", which I think should be the case if we have got to this point
> > (anything else would have triggered an error in fetch).
> 
> Wouldn't you get into the situation with this?
> 
> 	[remote "origin"]
>         	fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
> 	[branch "master"]
>         	remote = origin
>                 merge = refs/heads/next
> 
> I think saying "does not exist" will repeat the same mistake of
> overguessing you are trying to rectify.

You are right, of course. I think your wording makes sense, then (otherwise we get stuck with "well, we didn't fetch it. Maybe because it didn't exist. Or maybe because your configuration didn't include it.").

-Peff
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