From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Per Cederqvist" Subject: Confusing error message from "git pull" when upstream repo no longer exists Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:33:16 +0200 Organization: Opera Mini Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cederp@opera.com To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 29 12:45:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OTYJy-000853-4Z for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:45:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755298Ab0F2Kpe (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:45:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.opera.com ([213.236.208.81]:42052 "EHLO smtp.opera.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755142Ab0F2Kpd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:45:33 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 733 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:45:33 EDT Received: from centurion (046-tdc.opera.com [213.236.208.46] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.opera.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o5TAXHWe020154 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:33:18 GMT User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.11 (Linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: When running "git pull", I get this error message: fatal: /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree. "git fetch" gives me a much clearer error message: fatal: '/var/git/project.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly /var/git/project.git does no longer exist on the origin server, so I understand why the commands fail. I think "git pull" should have a less confusing error message, though. /ceder -- Per Cederqvist, cederp@opera.com