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Re: Now what: multiple HEAD refs

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 15, 2005, 10:16 UTC
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On 12/15/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> > just a heads-up for everyone tried "git pull" after using "git merge" too much:
> >
> > $ git pull . ref1 HEAD (notice the space!)
>
> If you were too used to git merge, you would have wrote
> HEAD before ref1, so that does not sound plausible ;-).

no, that I have remembered. What I constantly forget is the space-vs-colon difference.

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>         $ git pull . maint HEAD
>         error: no such remote ref refs/heads/HEAD
>         Fetch failure: .
>         $ echo $?
>         1
>
> But worse yet, the above syntax is to create an Octopus, and you
> probably did not mean that.
no, of course not.
> I think the reason why my trial here worked correctly while you
> had trouble with it is because I have the send-pack fix from
> Pasky last night.
yes, probably. It cleanups a reference if there was an error, right?
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