From: John Tapsell Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:31:46 GMT Subject: Re: Confusing git pull error message Message-ID: <43d8ce650909121431o382b9348q19ee7db5adbb4a72@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090912211119.GA30966@coredump.intra.peff.net> 2009/9/13 Jeff King : > +       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