On 2009-01-21, Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I deleted a remote branch which was pointed by HEAD, this way: "git > push origin :master" > > Then for almost every git command, I get this error: "error: > refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points nowhere!". > > I found this situation non-friendly. Fortunately, I could understand > what's going on. But a new user might be confused. That's a pretty advanced command for a beginner. I have people who're only using the GUI (in the presumption that it will be less confusing or less powerful or whatever) and have managed to right click on a remote branch, choose "checkout this branch" and have made commits on it without knowing they're not on any branch! I wish I had your problem :-) -- 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