Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:
just a heads-up for everyone tried "git pull" after using "git merge" too much:
$ git pull . ref1 HEAD (notice the space!)
If you were too used to git merge, you would have wrote
HEAD before ref1, so that does not sound plausible ;-).
$ git pull . maint HEAD
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/HEAD
Fetch failure: .
$ echo $?
1
But worse yet, the above syntax is to create an Octopus, and you
probably did not mean that.
I think the reason why my trial here worked correctly while you
had trouble with it is because I have the send-pack fix from
Pasky last night.