Re: Odd problem in repository

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Apr 24, 2007, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20070424173546.GG18538@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070424173048.GA5942@spearce.org>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:30:48PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> This is a change in Git versions.  Pre Git-1.5.0 we used to put all
> of the branches from the remote system into refs/heads, but now in
> 1.5.0 and later we put them in refs/remotes/origin.
> 
> Nothing screwed up on the central repository, its just the
> new layout.  refs/heads is reserved for *this* local repository,
> while refs/remotes/$name is reserved for the heads of $name remote
> repository.

See also

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt

(grep for "repository layout") for more details on the change.

The new system is surprising if you don't expect it, but it's really much simpler to work with.

--b.