From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:17:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv8 00/10] git notes
Message-ID: <4B56BC22.1040702@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vska15u92.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>>> This breaks "checkout to merge base" on Windows and t2012 in particular.
> 
> I think the attached patch would help.  If this fix is Ok with Windows
> people (J6t CC'ed), I'd like to apply this to 'master' so that we can ship
> 1.7.0-rc0 without breakage.
> 
> -- >8 --
> Subject: Fix "checkout A..." synonym for "checkout A...HEAD" on Windows
> ...
> Work this issue around by first calling check_ref_format(new.path) to see
> if the string can possibly be a valid ref under "refs/heads/", before
> asking resolve_ref().

Your patch fixes the failure very nicely, thank you very much.

BTW, calling 'git pack-refs --all' before 'git checkout master...'
helps as well :-P

-- Hannes