Re: Strange happening with 'git fetch'

From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Jan 7, 2010, 18:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20100107180742.GA27643@Knoppix>
In-Reply-To: <de73f1891001070959h30e4ecebw7c852f0417647419@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:59:39AM -0600, David Kirk wrote:

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> This is very strange, and defies the understanding of everyone in the
> office familiar with git.  Is it a bug, or some feature we don't
> understand?
> 
> Basically, when I do a 'git fetch', it updates my local repository.
> Now nobody else is doing anything, so the remote repository does not
> change.  Doing another 'git fetch' should report that nothing needs to
> be done and nothing should change.  But instead, it reports something
> about the remote HEAD, and changes my local branch 'master' to some
> strange location!  Running 'git fetch' again restores it to the
> correct state, reporting that it is updating 'master'.  Repeated
> invocations will toggle between these two results.  Below is a
> transcript from the bash shell.
> 
> Can someone please explain this?

I have seen that before. Looks like you have local branch 'HEAD' (_not_ the special ref HEAD) on remote side and that is messing it up.

ls-remote'ing the repository shows 'refs/heads/HEAD', right (there's also HEAD, that's the required special ref)?

-Ilari