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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: git errors pulling notmuch
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Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> writes:

> Hello Notmuchers
>
> I have installed Notmuch from source a while ago and been happy. But
> today I thought maybe it is about time to see if I should update (244
> commits behind), so I tried to pull the changes. I am getting this git
> error:
>
>   1 git =E2=80=A6 pull origin
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/debian/jessie-backports': 're=
fs/remotes/origin/debian' exists; cannot create 'refs/remotes/origin/debian=
/jessie-backports'

Try "git remote prune origin"

d