Re: Confusing git pull error message

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Sep 13, 2009, 20:57 UTC

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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