Notes on git's error messages

While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s error messages. I’ve had many years to get used to these error messages so it took me a really long time to understand why folks were confused, but having thought about it much more, I’ve realized that:sometimes I actually am confused by the error messages, I’m just used to being confusedI have a bunch of strategies for getting more information when the error message git gives me isn’t very informativeSo in this post, I’m going to go through a bunch of Git’s error messages, list a few things that I think are confusing about them for each one, and talk about what I do when I’m confused by the message.