Re: Sometimes "Failed to find remote refs" means "try git-fetch --no-tags"

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

[...]

However "fetch --no-tags" from http upstream is a band-aid to
hide that the upstream repository has stale info/refs, and I do
not think we would want to encourage the band-aid.  Rather, the
message should say "yell loudly at the repository owner" ;-).

I'm seeing this gem here:

  [vonbrand@laptop13 git]$ git pull
  fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer)
  Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
  fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer)
  Failed to find remote refs
  No changes.

Who shall I yell at? ;-)

Seriously, this is broken. I get 4 different error messages, plus a
(reassuring?) "No changes". Yes, I know this is what I'll see if the
machine is overloaded.
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