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Re: with git-next, git pull --rebase can print out "fatal: No such ref: ''" for branches without an upstream

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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date
Jan 17, 2014, 08:40 UTC
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<20140117084010.GL7608@serenity.lan>
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:47:38PM -0800, Siddharth Agarwal wrote:
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> On 01/16/2014 06:21 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 05:08:14PM -0800, Siddharth Agarwal wrote:
> >
> >> With git-next, where git pull --rebase can print out "fatal: No such
> >> ref: ''" if git pull --rebase is run on branches without an upstream.
> > This is already fixed in bb3f458 (rebase: fix fork-point with zero
> > arguments, 2014-01-09), I think.
> 
> If I'm reading the patch correctly, that only fixes it for git rebase, 
> not for git pull --rebase. git-pull.sh contains a separate invocation of 
> git merge-base --fork-point.

I'm pretty sure the invocation in git-pull.sh is OK. The error then comes out of git-rebase.sh when git-pull invokes it.

Are you running a version of git-next that includes bb3f458?
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  1. Siddharth AgarwalJan 17, 2014
  2. Jeff KingJan 17, 2014
  3. Siddharth AgarwalJan 17, 2014
  4. John KeepingJan 17, 2014
  5. Siddharth AgarwalJan 17, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2014
  7. John KeepingJan 17, 2014
  8. pull: suppress error when no remoteref is foundJohn Keeping, Jan 17, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2014

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