From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:16:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Now what: multiple HEAD refs
Message-ID: <81b0412b0512150216w295a5943ma66522befe381529@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xumr9mw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 12/15/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > 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.

>         $ 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?