Re: [PATCH 1/2] nmbug-status: Clarify errors for illegible configs

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nmbug-status: Clarify errors for illegible configs\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
+>   $ ./nmbug-status\r
+>   fatal: Not a git repository: '/home/wking/.nmbug'\r
+>   No local branch 'config' in /home/wking/.nmbug.  Checkout a local\r
+>   config branch or explicitly set --config.\r
+>\r
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+This is not _precicisely correct_; it works fine if config is not a local branch; try\r
+\r
+        cd ~/.nmbug && git branch -D config && git show-ref -s config\r
+\r
+I'm not sure if it matters, it won't hurt for the user to create a local\r
+branch, but maybe you can think of a better wording. And also an easy\r
+way to test this, since deleting the local config branch is not enough.\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r