Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add suggestion to hard-to-understand error message

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:03:23 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In a sense, both are "pull first?" situation, and it probably is
> more confusing to give different messages to the user in these
> two cases.  From the end-user point of view they are the same
> "remote is not strict subset.".
> 

In non-git'ish, does this mean "you're not up to date, so pull before 
pushing" ? If so, why not say so? I'm sure it could prevent a fair few 
problems for users (not least those new to scm's).

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