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dgit: Non-noop git fetch is not available with --dry-run, so fail
When fetch or push wants git fetch (other than in a situation where it
happes to be a noop) but --dry-run was specified, we would loop with a
false coplaint about git fetch. False, because we didn't actually run
git fetch so of course it didn't do anything.
Instead, fail with an explanation. Closes:#871317.
This does not occur, and we do not fail, if git-fetch would be a
no-op. We can tell when this is the case, because we use
git-ls-remote too. This leads to one suggestion for a workaround for
the user, which is to do a not --dry-run fetch first.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>