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

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2007, 15:55 UTC
Message-ID: <86fxzz6vfh.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071025155142.GB19655@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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

Jeff> Why is git-fetch touching your upstream branch at all? Do you have Jeff> something in your .git/config instructing it to do so? Or do you mean Jeff> that the 'git-merge upstream' command is failing? Can you 'git-show Jeff> upstream'? If not, can you 'git-show origin/master'?

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.

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