Re: A bug or unhandled case

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2013, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvc8xaoia.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABB6UqEfx=ssbiD1+2HA3AtmSrFeJeg5fmU3z1SKukNsKvd4qw@mail.gmail.com>

Michał Janiszewski <janisozaur@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
> I think I've found a bug in git or at least a use case that is not handled.
> In few words it can be described like this: if you push a remote
> branch to another remote, which is bare repository, you cannot remove
> that branch from said bare repository.
> Here is a recipe how to reproduce that with git 1.8.0:
> git init foo
> git init --bare bar.git
> git init --bare baz.git
> cd foo
> echo test > file
> git commit -am "initial commit"

Nothing added, nothing committed, at this point. I'd assume there is "git add file" before this commit.

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> git remote add bar ../bar.git
> git remote add baz ../baz.git
> git push bar master
> cd ..
> git clone bar.git bax
> cd bax
> git checkout -b "test_branch"
> echo evil > file
> git commit -am "evil commit"
> git push origin test-branch

error: src refspec test-branch does not match any. error: failed to push some refs to '...../bar.git'

I'd assume that is test_branch

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> cd ../foo
> git fetch bar
> git push baz bar/test_branch
> cd ../baz.git
>
> ###
> # on that point in baz.git there is only one branch:

Correct.

> # remotes/bar/test_branch 8b96ffe evil commit
> # trying to remove that branch yields no results:
> $ git branch -D refs/remotes/bar/test_branch

That is not the way to remove the remote tracking branch test_branch you have from remote bar, is it?

	git branch -r -D bar/test_branch