From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:17:56 GMT Subject: Re: cg-update (cogito-0.13) bug: changed heads Message-ID: <20050906231756.GC26934@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <431E03A5.6060709@zytor.com> Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:01:25PM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" told me that... > I just found a bug in cogito-0.13, at least to the best of my > understanding of the situation. > > Simplified, the problem looks like this: two sides, A and B, pull from > repository C. The head of this pull we call 0. > > Now commit 1 is added to A. B pulls commit 1 from A, not though C. > Later, A pushes commit 1 to C. > > Next time B tries to pull from C, cg-update will not advance > refs/heads/origin, even though C now has a new head. Thus, B will think > that C is in a different state than it actually is. So, C surely has its head updated? Does cg-update "fail" silently, or does it utter anything? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox