Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > What you have here is precisely what we observed. But I think one of the > complaints was to say more explicitly "that ref doesn't exist on the > remote", which I think should be the case if we have got to this point > (anything else would have triggered an error in fetch). Wouldn't you get into the situation with this? [remote "origin"] fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/next I think saying "does not exist" will repeat the same mistake of overguessing you are trying to rectify. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html