From: Stephen Kelly Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:09:04 GMT Subject: Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Can git have a bug tracker please? This is another reminder to fix this bug which is otherwise untrackable. Thanks, Steve. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote: > bump. > > I don't think this issue was fixed, was it? > > (no need to put kdepim back in the cc list) > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Felipe Contreras writes: >>> >>>> I don't fully understand the issue, so excuse me if this is totally >>>> wrong, but wouldn't a rule like 'you can't create a branch for which >>>> there's already a symbolic ref' do the trick? >>> >>> But whose symbolic ref are you checking against?  Your own, or ones in >>> somebody else's repository that you haven't recently updated from? >> >> The local ones. That means that somebody can't create a 'HEAD' branch >> locally, and can't push a 'HEAD' branch either, as the remote server >> would already have a 'HEAD' symbolic link. And actually, if for some >> reason I have a FOO_HEAD, and I fetch a branch called bob/FOO_HEAD, >> obviously the local symbolic ref without namespace should take >> precedence. >> >> -- >> Felipe Contreras >> >