Re: [topgit] tg update error

From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Date: Feb 12, 2009, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20090212210135.GA24687@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090212125946.GC5397@sigill.intra.peff.net>

also sprach Jeff King <peff@peff.net> [2009.02.12.1359 +0100]:

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> > 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'\

Thanks, Jeff, for the accurate analysis. Since I do not see a way for topgit to do things differently -- top-bases are *not* heads and thus warrant a different namespace -- can I assume that this is to be fixed in Git and not in TopGit?

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