From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:33:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD
Message-ID: <49773240.7090605@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <e29894ca0901210502n1ed1187bm46669a402ab4fe48@mail.gmail.com>

Marc-André Lureau venit, vidit, dixit 21.01.2009 14:02:
> Hi
> 
> I deleted a remote branch which was pointed by HEAD, this way: "git
> push origin :master"
> 
> Then for almost every git command, I get this error: "error:
> refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points nowhere!".

You're talking about about the remote git repo, aren't you?

> I found this situation non-friendly. Fortunately, I could understand
> what's going on. But a new user might be confused.
> 
> Shouldn't the remote HEAD branch be updated or "protected" in some
> ways? Or should the "error" be considered as a "warning" (silently?)
> 
> What do you think?

I think that git said
"warning: updating the currently checked out branch; this may cause
confusion,
as the index and working tree do not reflect changes that are now in HEAD."
after your push and that this may have rung some bells. I also think
that pushing to a non-bare remote repo (one with a worktree checked out)
is strongly advised against in multiple places, unless you know what
you're doing - which you seem to do since you were able to restore your
HEAD ;)

Cheers,
Michael