From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:23:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: error out when the "upstream" semantics does not make sense Message-ID: <20120405202327.GB6885@burratino> In-Reply-To: <7vhawy54nd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > How about phrasing it this way? [ fatal: You are pushing to remote '%s', which is not the upstream of your current branch '%s', without telling me to push which local branch to update which remote branch with. ] I think some words got jumbled a little. But in that spirit, maybe here's a start: fatal: You are pushing to remote 'somethinglong', which is not the upstream of your current branch 'something/very/long', without telling me which local branches to use to update which remote branches.