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Notes on Git's Error Messages

Notes on git's error messages

Before we start, I want to say that trying to think about why these error messages are confusing has given me a lot of respect for how difficult maintaining Git is. I find this one confusing in exactly the same way as the previous message: it says deleted by them:, but what “them” refers to depends on whether you did a merge or rebase or cherry-pick. I’m personally way too lazy to do that so even though I’ve probably been using git clean for 10 years I still had no idea what-i stood for ( interactive) until I was writing this down.

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