Re: pull/push inconsistencies

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2007, 01:51 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90705151851i9027e01x993300b1b50d0285@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070516014002.GA8062@fieldses.org>

On 5/16/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:22:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > There are 2 things that I see as wrong...
> > > - local .git/refs/remote/origin/foo and refs/heads/foo match - why is
> > > git-push talking about updating them?
> >
> > Ooo...
> >
> > Do you mean if you have refs/remotes/origin/foo locally, and
> > push into a repository that has refs/heads/foo (but not
> > refs/remotes/origin/foo), the push results in refs/heads/foo
> > getting updated?  If that is what is happening (without any
> > refspecs to instruct git-push to do so) that sounds quite buggy.
> > I need to look into the code for this one.
>
> I understand him to be saying that it *doesn't* do that, and that he
> *wants* it to.

I'm probably in a bad-communication day :-/

I have locally .git/refs/remotes/origin/foo, and the remote repo has refs/heads/foo. I don't have .git/refs/heads/foo in this case. When I do git-push, it doesn't really change the remote repo, but it _tells_ me it has.

So - behaviour-wise, it's fine. It's not changing the remote repo. But it tells me it does. It's just plain weird and misleading...

> People think of refs/remotes/origin as a cache of the origin
> repository's branch heads, and they expect it to be updated on write
> (push) as well as read (fetch).

Yes ;-)

cheers,

martin