Re: Confusing git pull error message

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> Subject: [PATCH] git-pull: dead code removal
> 
> Back when a74b170 (git-pull: disallow implicit merging to detached HEAD,
> 2007-01-15) added this check, $? referred to the error status of reading
> HEAD as a symbolic-ref; but cd67e4d (Teach 'git pull' about --rebase,
> 2007-11-28) moved the command away from where the check is, and nobody
> noticed the breakage.  Ever since, $? has always been 0 (tr at the end of
> the pipe to find merge_head never fails) and other case arms were never
> reached.
> 
> These days, error_on_no_merge_candidates function is prepared to handle a
> detached HEAD case, which was what the code this patch removes used to
> handle.