> > but it was a PITA and all of git's messages about the problem were not > > only unhelpful, they confused me into looking for problems where there > > were none IMO. > > Yes, we need to teach "git" to do more mind-reading (I am not being > sarcastic). There should be a pattern in common user errors that share > their roots to the same user misperception, and if we can identify that, > maybe we can make git guess what the user was really trying to do and give > better error messages than it currently does. Something along the lines of: Error description Why it happened How to solve/Sugestion -- []s, André Goddard -- 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