Re: Confusing git pull error message

From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2009, 21:31 UTC
Message-ID: <43d8ce650909121431o382b9348q19ee7db5adbb4a72@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090912211119.GA30966@coredump.intra.peff.net>

2009/9/13 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:

> +       else
> +               echo "Your configuration specified for us to pull the ref"
> +               echo "'$upstream_short', but we were unable to fetch it from"
> +               echo "the remote."

Thanks!

But why was it 'unable' ?  Are there cases other than it not existing?
 Maybe something less cryptic:

"Attempted to pull from ref $upstream_short but this branch does not exist on remote."

Or something?

John