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Re: `git-rev-parse master` not referred to by any ref?

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JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Aug 26, 2007, 14:06 UTC
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<20070826140645.GC20243@fieldses.org>
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:52:51AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:45:21AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Any idea how I got into this situation?:
> > 
> > 	git$ git rev-parse master
> > 	warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
> > 	407c0c87e15b3cf60347f4fc0bcdb4d239de4163
> > 	~/local/git$ git for-each-ref | grep master
> > 	32ebe844c689d6e13e9875a0feefedca8dc1c6eb commit refs/heads/master
> > 	e413074f1293e907d94af99330f0dd632a78b01f commit refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master
> > 	0058a33a8eb5a8bfcfc5f5e769a2517cff4b73f1 commit refs/remotes/origin/master
> > 	git$ git for-each-ref | grep 407c0
> > 	git$ 
> 
> Oops, found it:
> 
> 	git$ cat .git/master
> 	407c0c87e15b3cf60347f4fc0bcdb4d239de4163
(Somebody on irc pointed out that
	git update-ref master 407c0c87e15b3cf60347f4fc0bcdb4d239de4163

The file's dated a couple weeks ago, so I don't remember, but I can easily imagine that I could have typed that assuming it'd update .git/refs/heads/master. OK!)

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