From: Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:00:07 GMT
Subject: Re: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
Message-ID: <1213736407.2490.9.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <m3fxrbop4g.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Thanks, that explains it..


nick

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:09 -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > I guess I don't understand refs. I figured that since I have
> > 
> > remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> > 
> > set, I should have a ref refs/remotes/origin/* as well.
> 
> The above is _globbing_ refspec, it means that it maps 
> "refs/heads/<name>" branch in remote repository to 
> "refs/remotes/origin/<name>" remote-tracking branch in local
> repository.
>