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+I have a problem when I edit my wiki with a text editor and use just git to commit.
+
+Suppose `iki` is my scrdir and `iki.git` my repository. Then I did `git clone iki.git myiki` to get a copy. Then I do
+
+ cd myiki
+ echo "test" >> somepage.mdwm"
+ git add somepage.mdwm
+ git pull
+ git commit -m "test"
+ git push
+
+Then I get the following error message
+
+ Counting objects: 5, done.
+ Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
+ Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
+ Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 287 bytes, done.
+ Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
+ Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
+ remote: From /home/myuser/iki
+ remote: 32bb6be..1f3a647 master -> origin/master
+ remote: There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched.
+ remote: Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no
+ remote: matches on the remote end.
+ remote: 'git pull --prune origin' failed: at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 207.
+ remote: skipping bad filename local.css~
+ remote: skipping bad filename #tex_sandbox.mdwn#
+ To /home/myuser/iki.git
+ 32bb6be..1f3a647 master -> master
+
+When I check the repository via gitk I see that everything seems to be ok, if I check the scrdir the same way origin master is one step away from master and the change doesn't appear on the iki web page. Then I tried to do a `sudo git pull --prune origin master` in my scrdir which sets master to the head, but the change isn't there anyway. It foremost appears when I do a second change as above or if I do `sudo ikiwiki --setup iki.setup`.
+
+By the way the setup gives me a similar error message:
+
+ successfully generated /var/www/iki/ikiwiki.cgi
+ successfully generated /home/myuser/iki.git/hooks/post-update
+ There are no candidates for merging among the refs that you just fetched.
+ Generally this means that you provided a wildcard refspec which had no
+ matches on the remote end.
+ 'git pull --prune origin' failed: at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 207.
+
+Any ideas what may be wrong here and how to fix this?