Re: recent change in git.git/master broke my repos

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 25, 2007, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20071025155142.GB19655@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <86oden6z97.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:32:36AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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> I have echo "ref: refs/remotes/origin/master" >.git/refs/heads/upstream
> so that my daily update script can go:
> 
>    git-fetch
>    if [ repo is on master, and is not dirty ];
>       git-merge upstream
>    fi
> 
> Yesterday that worked.
> 
> Today I get a rash of:
> 
>   fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/remotes/origin/master
> 
> from my git-fetch.

Works fine here (meaning I can examine 'upstream' as I would any other branch, and it points to the same place as origin/master).

Why is git-fetch touching your upstream branch at all? Do you have something in your .git/config instructing it to do so? Or do you mean that the 'git-merge upstream' command is failing? Can you 'git-show upstream'? If not, can you 'git-show origin/master'?

-Peff