From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:59:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [topgit] tg update error
Message-ID: <20090212125946.GC5397@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090212125621.GB5397@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:56:21AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> So what I suspect is happening is that topgit is trying to set HEAD to
> "refs/top-bases/whatever". Aneesh, can you confirm by running your test
> with GIT_TRACE=1?  I suspect you will see a call like "git symbolic-ref
> HEAD refs/top-bases/foo".

Actually, I was able to reproduce with the recipe from Martin and Bert
elsewhere in the thread. And that is indeed what is happening:

  trace: built-in: git 'symbolic-ref' 'HEAD' 'refs/top-bases/test'

-Peff