From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:52:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Unclear error message in "git remote update"
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803092152150.3975@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <2008-03-09-13-37-55+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> One of my colleague seems to have destroyed one of its head in his
> private repository. When fetching from it through "git remote update"
> using next, the repository name is not output:
> 
> % git remote update
> error: refs/heads/2.0-uobjects points nowhere!
> 
> Using master, I get:
> 
> % git remote update
> Updating core
> Updating matthieu
> error: refs/heads/2.0-uobjects points nowhere!
> Updating origin
> 
> which is IMO much clearer. Also, I like seeing what remote repository
> it is updating from in case anything gets stuck or slow.
> 
> Any objection to reinstating the message as does the following patch?

None from me.

Thanks,
Dscho