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Subject: Re: error: unlink(.git/refs/remotes/origin/testbranch) failed: was
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:04:20 -0700
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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.