From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:55:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Confusing error message from "git pull" when upstream repo no longer exists
Message-ID: <AANLkTilbqmedF9Wh3dG3n9HYtuZuq4PzTwOp6T8NCjQ8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.ve14xqlq0i1pst@centurion>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com> wrote:
> When running "git pull", I get this error message:
>
>    fatal: /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a
> working tree.

This error message is shown when you try to pull in a bare repository
(without a working tree). It seems you don't have a working tree, but
you have a repository, so you can still fetch. (the working tree check
is done before the fetch).

HTH,
Santi