Re: recent change in git.git/master broke my repos

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2007, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <86bqan6v9f.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071025155712.GA21446@coredump.intra.peff.net>

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

Jeff> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:55:14AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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>> It's probably due to this:
>> 
>> [remote "origin"]
>> url = [obscured]
>> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>> 
>> fetch wants to sync my heads with the origin heads.  But yes, it's
>> definitely the fetch that fails under today's version, and not
>> under yesterday's version.

Jeff> So that should take the remote's refs/heads/* and put them in your Jeff> refs/remotes/origin/*. I don't see how that would have anything to do Jeff> with your 'refs/heads/upstream' branch.

Agreed, but that's the place where fetch might look at refs/heads/upstream, and the behavior is definitely different between yesterday and today.

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