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Re: HEAD branch duplicated in remotes/origin

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jun 8, 2006, 08:17 UTC
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<7vverc9i4i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> when cloning with --use-separate-remote, $GITDIR/remotes/origin contains
> two references to refs/heads/master.
Thanks for noticing.

Very lightly tested but I think this should fix it. -- >8 -- git-clone: fix duplicated "master" in $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin

Under --use-separate-remote we ended up duplicating the branch remote HEAD pointed at in $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index de59904..64318b4 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -391,11 +391,16 @@ Pull: refs/heads/$head_points_at:$origin
 		(cd "$GIT_DIR/$remote_top" && find . -type f -print) |
 		while read dotslref
 		do
-			name=`expr "$dotslref" : './\(.*\)'` &&
-			test "$use_separate_remote" = '' && {
-				test "$head_points_at" = "$name" ||
-				test "$origin" = "$name"
-			} ||
+			name=`expr "$dotslref" : './\(.*\)'`
+			if test "z$head_points_at" = "z$name"
+			then
+				continue
+			fi
+			if test "$use_separate_remote" = '' &&
+			   test "z$origin" = "z$name"
+			then
+				continue
+			fi
 			echo "Pull: refs/heads/${name}:$remote_top/${name}"
 		done >>"$GIT_DIR/remotes/$origin" &&
 		case "$use_separate_remote" in
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