From: Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 03:13:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Message-ID: <CA+7g9Jxp859st6SrViizwOMrU9vsnmfy6P64SK9y_-ZEzEB6Mw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FA32A6A.4070007@blizzard.com>

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Illia Bobyr <ibobyr@blizzard.com> wrote:
>
> It is just a "non-fast forward" move of a branch tip.  This term
> describes what happens precisely :)
>
> It is true, that the term is non obvious to the new comers.
> One may google and get an explanation of the error pretty quickly.
> First hit for "git non fast forward error" gives an explanation from a
> new comer point of view for the simplest case.

I just led a team of reasonably bright people through a transition
from SVN to git.  Not one of them understood this message.  Every one
of them thought something was broken.  This is a very common
occurrence, so a short, simple message without jargon for this error
would be a big, big win.

Cheers,
-n8

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