From: Andrew Sayers <andrew-20120504@pileofstuff.org>
To: Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org>
Cc: Illia Bobyr <ibobyr@blizzard.com>,
Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com>,
Ronan Keryell <Ronan.Keryell@hpc-project.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 20:18:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA42B7C.4010202@pileofstuff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+7g9Jxp859st6SrViizwOMrU9vsnmfy6P64SK9y_-ZEzEB6Mw@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/05/12 04:13, Nathan Gray wrote:
> I just led a team of reasonably bright people through a transition
> from SVN to git. Not one of them understood this message. Every one
> of them thought something was broken. This is a very common
> occurrence, so a short, simple message without jargon for this error
> would be a big, big win.
Now you come to mention it, I had the same experience a while back.
The message could certainly do with improvement, but I think this
particular case is more a side-effect of the push.default issue
currently being worked through. Beginners expect `git push` to push a
single branch, so they see "error" and assume the single branch they
pushed must have failed.
- Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-04 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-30 22:30 Newbie grief Rich Pixley
2012-04-30 23:31 ` Seth Robertson
2012-05-01 1:15 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 1:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 1:55 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 3:44 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-05-01 11:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-01 16:13 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-05-01 18:15 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 18:20 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 18:52 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-02 21:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-01 18:42 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 20:52 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:05 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 21:25 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:28 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 21:57 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 22:56 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 23:55 ` Philip Oakley
2012-05-03 16:08 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 18:20 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 23:04 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 23:06 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 18:46 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-03 22:44 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 22:53 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 19:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 19:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 19:41 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 21:29 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 21:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01 22:07 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 22:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-05-01 23:01 ` PJ Weisberg
2012-05-03 18:43 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:09 ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-03 19:16 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 20:14 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 20:52 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 15:56 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-04 18:23 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 19:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-05-04 20:00 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-02 14:21 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-02 15:21 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 12:23 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 12:53 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-03 16:09 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 16:20 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-05-03 16:44 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-03 18:26 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:33 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-01 23:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-03 18:31 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 18:58 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 14:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-05-04 14:59 ` Stephen Bash
2012-05-04 16:29 ` Mark Brown
2012-05-04 19:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-01 18:03 ` Rich Pixley
[not found] ` <4FA01C73.5000909@palm.com>
2012-05-02 0:44 ` Sitaram Chamarty
[not found] ` <4F9F28F5.2020403@palm.com>
2012-05-01 1:37 ` Seth Robertson
2012-05-01 3:04 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 5:32 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 6:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 6:24 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-01 17:29 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-01 17:33 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 19:13 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 20:19 ` Ronan Keryell
2012-05-03 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-03 22:23 ` Ronan Keryell
2012-05-03 22:33 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-03 22:39 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 1:01 ` Illia Bobyr
2012-05-04 3:13 ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-04 4:35 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-04 5:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 10:09 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-05-04 14:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 16:46 ` Nathan Gray
2012-05-04 17:17 ` Illia Bobyr
2012-05-04 18:10 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 17:57 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 19:22 ` Michael Witten
2012-05-04 19:18 ` Andrew Sayers [this message]
2012-05-04 18:57 ` Jérôme Benoit
2012-05-04 20:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-04 20:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-05-04 21:29 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-04 22:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-30 23:35 ` Jan Krüger
2012-05-01 18:59 ` Rich Pixley
2012-05-02 8:25 ` Philippe Vaucher
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