Hi, all. Thanks, Jeff and Jakub, for the clarifications. Jakub writes: > Nevertheless git-clone waits to be rewritten in C anyway, so > there is no much initiative to improve shell version I agree with you. If it's about to be replaced, there's not much point in making a wording change to the shell script. > Perhaps git should check if there is anything to clone _before_ > git-init, or do not remove empty directory after failing to fetch. I'm not sure that's necessary, as long as that new message is there in 1.5.4. I'll hang tight for my distro to pick it up. --Ian - 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