From: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Confusing error message from "git pull" when upstream repo no longer exists
Message-ID: <op.ve16un100i1pst@centurion>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilbqmedF9Wh3dG3n9HYtuZuq4PzTwOp6T8NCjQ8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:55:29 +0200, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:

> 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

Oh. You are correct. I was in a bare repository, so I guess the message
is good after all. Sorry for my mistaken report.

     /ceder
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Per Cederqvist, cederp@opera.com