Re: Errors when updating an old git.git repository

From: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
Date: Dec 26, 2006, 19:22 UTC
Message-ID: <87ac1awjh0.fsf@trews52.bothi.fi>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580612260737vae2669dkac6a81fe863484d4@mail.gmail.com>

"Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/26/06, Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> wrote:

> I guess you have some branch references in the file
> .git/remotes/origin that shouldn't be there, so you can just remove
> the lines that mention  'jc/bind', 'jc/bind-2' and 'gb/diffdelta' from
> that file.

Thanks, but I don't need to fix the repository since a clean clone works, I just wanted to report it so that git can be fixed, if possible.

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>> * refs/heads/pu: not updating to non-fast forward branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>>   old...new: 0c9951a...f959571
>
> The pu branch is rebased all the time so it needs a '+' in
> .git/remotes/origin to be automatically updated, like this:
>
> Pull: +pu:pu
>
> (or you can run 'git pull -f' to force the update)

I ran 'git pull -f' and it gave me this:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 293 objects.
remote: Result has 214 objects.
remote: Deltifying 214 objects.
remote:  100% (214/214) done
Unpacking 214 objects
remote: Total 214, written 214 (delta 156), reused 181 (delta 123)
 100% (214/214) done
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/jc/bind
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/jc/bind-2
error: no such remote ref refs/heads/gb/diffdelta
* refs/heads/pu: forcing update to non-fast forward branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
  old...new: 0c9951a...f959571
* refs/heads/man: fast forward to branch 'man' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
  old..new: 55beec2..da0e8b5
* refs/heads/todo: fast forward to branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
  old..new: a94df75..32e72b6
* refs/heads/next: fast forward to branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
  old..new: 50dae10..9c0d79d
* refs/heads/html: fast forward to branch 'html' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
  old..new: 30e1db1..d793de5
Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Already up-to-date.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Now further 'git pull's also display "Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git". It no longer mentions the 'pu' branch, though.

-- 
Hannu