From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:50:44 GMT
Subject: Re: error: refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points nowhere!
Message-ID: <200803060950.44873.tlikonen@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iggn9ts.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano kirjoitti:

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
> > After a while I start tracking some other remote repository. I do
> > this:
> >
> >   git remote add ng git://project-ng/project.git
> >
> > Then I do "git fetch ng" and probably also "git checkout --track -b
> > master-ng ng/master". Then I find the old "origin" useless to me so
> > I remove it with "git remote rm origin".
> >
> > It seems that refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is still left in my
> > repository and hence I keep getting these annoying error messages
> > all the time.
> >
> > Well, I know how to delete this file, but I believe that git should
> > have deleted it when I called "git remote rm origin". Am I right?
>
> Good analysis.  I would say "git remote rm" should have removed
> it and it would be a bug if it didn't.

Yes, "git remote rm <remote>" certainly doesn't remove the 
refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD file. I can reproduce this bug anytime with 
current 'master' branch from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git