Merge pull request #2713 from libgit2/jamill/push_fetch_first Update message for error during push
diff --git a/src/push.c b/src/push.c
index 88cd4cb..6671da4 100644
--- a/src/push.c
+++ b/src/push.c
@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ static int revwalk(git_vector *commits, git_push *push)
continue;
if (!git_odb_exists(push->repo->_odb, &spec->roid)) {
- giterr_set(GITERR_REFERENCE, "Cannot push missing reference");
+ giterr_set(GITERR_REFERENCE,
+ "Cannot push because a reference that you are trying to update on the remote contains commits that are not present locally.");
error = GIT_ENONFASTFORWARD;
goto on_error;
}