Re: Tags, Grafts, and Clones, oh my!

From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2010, 14:40 UTC
Message-ID: <5054888.117464.1282315250235.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100820133925.GE9448@kytes>

> Thanks for the testcase! Offhand, it definitely looks like a bug. I'm
> investigating to figure out which part of the chain is at fault.

No problem.  I was very happily to isolate it outside the large repo I was working with...

Contrary to my first e-mail, 'git checkout -b branchFoo tagFoo' doesn't solve the problem...  My guess is I got lazy and did a "normal" local clone (no file URL) when I was testing.

Data from further testing:
  - doing a "normal" local clone doesn't emit the error
  - a remote clone over ssh does emit the error (so it's not just file:///)
  - in a brand new repo (init'ed, not cloned) 'git fetch ../foo refs/tags/tagFoo:refs/tags/tagFoo' fails:
      error: unable to find 28fffee... (sha of tag object)
  - in a brand new repo 'git fetch ../foo refs/heads/branchFoo:ref/heads/branchFoo' succeeds, and correctly fetches tagFoo  (where branchFoo is created via 'git checkout -b branchFoo tagFoo')

Thanks, Stephen