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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing git pull error message
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:31:46 +0300
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2009/9/13 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:

> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 else
> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 echo "Your configu=
ration specified for us to pull the ref"
> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 echo "'$upstream_s=
hort', but we were unable to fetch it from"
> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 echo "the remote."

Thanks!

But why was it 'unable' ?  Are there cases other than it not existing?
 Maybe something less cryptic:

"Attempted to pull from ref $upstream_short but this branch does not
exist on remote."

Or something?

John