Re: 'pu' branch for StGIT

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2007, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20070809203957.GA14441@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1186677210.31394.28.camel@dv>

On 2007-08-09 12:33:30 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

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> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:18 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > You should be able to do something like
> >
> >   $ stg applied > .git/patches/branch/applied
> >   $ stg unapplied > .git/patches/branch/unapplied
> >
> > and then manually change the version from 3 to 2, and be ready to
> > go. I haven't tested this, though!
>
> That seems to work. Thank you!

What? You mean I didn't forget any step? ;-)

> "branch" should be substituted with the current branch, of course.

I was just too lazy to type the brackets. Or maybe I'm just evil and _want_ the lock-in effect. Who knows? :-)

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> > I saw the same problem today.
> >
> > https://gna.org/bugs/?9710
>
> I've attached the test case to that bug. You are right, git-gc is
> involved.

Thanks.

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> > I haven't seen this problem at all -- in my repositories, "stg
> > branch -l" just works. Will try to reproduce (hopefully tonight).
> > Do you have a recepie on how to reproduce this from scratch?
>
> It's a problem with git-gc too! Just clone some repository and run
> "stg branch -l" in it. It with show master. Run git-gc, and "stg
> branch -l" will show "No branches".

Well, well! In that case, I'm off to kill two birds with one stone!

> I see that in my Linux repository there are files in
> .git/refs/remotes/wireless-dev but not in other directories under
> .git/refs/remotes/

Presumably the only nonpacked refs are the ones that have been updated after the last ref packing. Or however it works.

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