From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:23:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Git ghost references
Message-ID: <4F02BAF9.1000206@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ6vYjfpx-hfDsd+urp5_iS99p0RhmxohOc+TNv7SUWFnYe5wQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 03.01.2012 00:42, schrieb Chris Leong:
> I seem to have a "ghost reference" - ie. I can check out a reference
> that doesn't appear to exist. Does anyone know what might cause this?
> 
> ~/gaf-cvs (project-membership)$ g show-ref | grep production
> ~/gaf-cvs (project-membership)$ g co production
> Note: checking out 'production'.
> ...

The most likely reason is that you have a ref 'production' directly in
the .git directory. Perhaps you or one of your scripts created it
accidentally using 'git update-ref production ae5b621', i.e., without
giving the full ref path name.

-- Hannes