Re: kernel.org git tree corrupt?

From: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 4, 2008, 04:42 UTC
Message-ID: <524f69650803032042rab309f3nd5c2d52d312fb3c5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803030800460.17889@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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>  On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Steve French wrote:
>  > Now "git branch -a" shows
>  > * master
>  >   origin/master
>  >
>  > It is missing "origin/HEAD"
>
>  Ahh, yeah, my bad. The origin/HEAD thing will be created if you use either
>  clone or "git remote add -m master" to create the remote. But when I asked
>  you to do it by just editing the config file, you now have to create that
>  HEAD pointer manually too.
>
>  You can do
>
>         git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/master
>
>  to create the thing (it just creates a symbolic ref from the origin/HEAD

Worked.

Shaggy pointed me to the git-request-pull script which is easier than the previous scripts I used and now works fine on the cifs-2.6.git tree so will send merge request.

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Thanks,

Steve