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From: Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	bernie@codewiz.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Give error when no remote is configured
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:12:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BEEAF4.40403@develer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490903161301qca2214cta87411bad1b0b8b5@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/16/2009 9:01 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>> No default remote is configured for your current branch, and the default
>> remote "origin" is not configured either.
> 
> The use of "default" twice is slightly confusing. Perhaps:
> 
> No remote is configured for the current branch, and the default
> remote "origin" is not configured either.

I'm a total newbie with git. I must say that the above sentence means 
absolutely nothing to me (in either version) because of the confusing 
usage of the word "remote" (twice, one as a substantive, one as an 
adjective) and the word "origin" which is git jargon which I don't 
master yet.

My suggestion is that you should at least add a sentence that points to 
a likely solution. Something like:

   (use "git remote add" to configure a remote URL)

Note that I don't have any clue if this sentece is correct and/or is the 
correct solution. The above is just an example of a helpful error message.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
http://www.develer.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11  5:47 [PATCH] Give error when no remote is configured Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-11  6:19 ` Bernie Innocenti
2009-03-16  7:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-16 16:55   ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-16 20:01     ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-17  0:12       ` Giovanni Bajo [this message]
2009-03-17 16:06         ` Daniel Barkalow

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