Re: git remote --mirror bug?

From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Date: Mar 15, 2008, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <1205604534.7589.20.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>
In-Reply-To: <1205499956.7589.4.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 14:05 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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> Created a mirror like so:
>  git --bare init 
>  git remote add --mirror os2kernel /usr/local/src/os2kernel
> 
> Git fetch errors out
>  git fetch os2kernel 
> fatal: * refusing to create funny ref 'refs/stash' locally
> 
> Also 
> git remote show os2kernel 
> * remote os2kernel
>   URL: /usr/local/src/os2kernel
> Warning: unrecognized mapping in remotes.os2kernel.fetch: +refs/*:refs/*
> 
> git --version
> git version 1.5.4.3
> 
>  Jocke

Forgot to mention that clearing the stash with "git stash clear" deletes the refs/stash file and then above commands succeeds.

This is a rather harmless bug, but if you are running the fetch command in a cron job to backup your repo, it becomes more serious as one will not see the failure.

 Jocke