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Re: bug related to branches using / in name

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 27, 2008, 03:57 UTC
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<20080627035747.GC7144@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20080627030245.GA7144@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:02:46PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> It might be nicer if this were handled automatically, but it would
> violate git-fetch's rule about never deleting branches. And presumably
> this comes up infrequently enough that it isn't a problem. Perhaps a
> better error message suggesting git-prune might make sense?

And here is a 2-patch series improving the error reporting for this case (and it also helps with some other cases). I'm a little iffy on 2/2, since we don't actually _know_ that remote pruning will help. But propagating specific errors up through the call chain would require reasonably major surgery.

  1/2: fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to update
  2/2: fetch: report local storage errors in status table
-Peff
Previous: Simon Holm ThøgersenNext: Jeff King
Message 5 of 13 in “bug related to branches using / in name”
  1. Simon Holm ThøgersenJun 26, 2008
  2. Jeff KingJun 27, 2008
  3. Jeff KingJun 27, 2008
  4. Simon Holm ThøgersenJun 27, 2008
  5. Jeff KingJun 27, 2008
  6. fetch: report local storage errors in status tableJeff King, Jun 27, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  8. Jeff KingJun 28, 2008
  9. 2/2 fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to updateJeff King, Jun 27, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2008
  11. Jeff KingJun 28, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiJun 28, 2008

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