Re: Problem upgrading to 1.4.0

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 11, 2006, 02:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wtwh246.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0606101707t5eb35a4du3ebd0fd17737943f@mail.gmail.com>

"Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> When I do a "git pull origin" I get messages:
>
>             error: no such remote ref refs/heads/gb/diffdelta
>             error: no such remote ref refs/heads/jc/bind
>             error: no such remote ref refs/heads/jc/bind-2
>             ...
>             Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>...
> So I went into .git/remotes/origin and
> removed the lines pointing at these branches and removed the gb and jc
> directories
> and did another git pull and it seems to have worked.

This is the second time this same gotcha caused trouble here. I agree it would be sensible to make git-fetch (which is called by git-pull) to detect stale entries in the remotes/origin file and remote.origin.fetch configuration items.