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Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 20, 2011, 17:32 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> On Friday we had an issue where a developer pushed a branch called HEAD to
>> the remote server. The result was that other developers could not pull or
>> push.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts/response on this?
Can you list a series of steps to reproduce this?
> Why does git not have a bug tracker?
Because it's not needed. If you have an issue, post the issue as you
would file a bug:
 Which version of git?
 Which kind of network transport was used?
 Is this reproducible?

Chances are, if this is reproducible in the latest version, someone would fix it soon enough. If not, and it's important to you, you would ping back. If other people find this issue, they would send another email.

In fact, if you really want to help, you could clone the latest 'master' to see if this still happening, narrow down the steps needed to reproduce this, write a test to trigger it and send a patch. Certainly, a test case that constantly fails would be a constant remainder that there is a bug.

Cheers.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
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Message 7 of 40 in “Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones”
  1. Stephen KellyJan 17, 2011
  2. Stephen KellyJan 20, 2011
  3. Thomas RastJan 20, 2011
  4. Stephen KellyJan 20, 2011
  5. Erik Faye-LundJan 20, 2011
  6. Stephen KellyJan 20, 2011
  7. Felipe ContrerasJan 20, 2011
  8. Wesley J. LandakerJan 20, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2011
  10. Jeff KingJan 20, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2011
  12. Jeff KingJan 20, 2011
  13. Felipe ContrerasJan 20, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2011
  15. Felipe ContrerasJan 22, 2011
  16. Stephen KellyFeb 20, 2011
  17. Stephen KellyApr 26, 2011
  18. Felipe ContrerasApr 26, 2011
  19. Stephen KellyApr 27, 2011
  20. Felipe ContrerasApr 27, 2011
  21. Stephen KellyApr 27, 2011
  22. Felipe ContrerasApr 27, 2011
  23. Stephen KellyApr 27, 2011
  24. Felipe ContrerasApr 27, 2011
  25. Erik Faye-LundApr 27, 2011
  26. Erik Faye-LundApr 27, 2011
  27. Stephen KellyMay 2, 2011
  28. Erik Faye-LundMay 2, 2011
  29. Felipe ContrerasMay 3, 2011
  30. Stephen KellyMay 3, 2011
  31. Felipe ContrerasMay 3, 2011
  32. Erik Faye-LundMay 4, 2011
  33. only warn about ambiguous refs if stderr is a ttyErik Faye-Lund, May 9, 2011
  34. Jeff KingMay 9, 2011
  35. Erik Faye-LundMay 9, 2011
  36. Jeff KingMay 9, 2011
  37. Erik Faye-LundMay 9, 2011
  38. Jeff KingMay 9, 2011
  39. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2011
  40. Jeff KingMay 9, 2011

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