Re: Question about 'odd' messages when running git pull -r

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:29 AM, James <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Occasionally when i run 'git pull -r' in a terminal I get the following
>
>> address@hidden:~/lilypond-git$ git pull -r
>> usage: git merge-base [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...
>>
>>    -a, --all             outputs all common ancestors
>>
>> usage: git merge-base [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...
>>
>>    -a, --all             outputs all common ancestors

[...]

> I just wondered why I am getting these 'usage' prompts. I even did a clean
> install of the whole repository a few days ago to see if this was just 'one
> of those things' but it seems that it comes and goes.
>
> It's not a big deal but I wondered if anyone had had the same issues?

I've never seen these usage prompts before.  It's probably just a
harmless issue with your version of Git.

-Patrick