From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>, Martin <html-kurs@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: was remote does not support deleting refs
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:04:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7ibwta63.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080708040801.GA7186@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:08:02 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> It is harmless, but it still feels a little wrong to scare the user with
> that message, especially since "Failed to delete" is ambiguous; it looks
> like the main operation, deleting the remote ref, failed. But it didn't;
> the operation that failed was something not even explicitly asked for.
>
> How about this cleanup:
Ack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-08 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-05 21:22 remote does not support deleting refs Martin
2008-07-06 0:20 ` error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: was " Martin
2008-07-06 18:34 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-08 4:08 ` Jeff King
2008-07-08 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-06 13:29 ` Dmitry Potapov
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