From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:40:40 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <ron1-25CA1F.10404030012010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100130085957.GA20112@coredump.intra.peff.net>

In article <20100130085957.GA20112@coredump.intra.peff.net>,
 Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

>      I can't think of an improved message that
>      would make the situation clear without adding a bunch of annoying
>      text.

In situations like that a pointer to the docs, or a keyword to search on 
is often sufficient.

rg