From: Chris Leong <walkraft@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:32:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Git ghost references
Message-ID: <CAJ6vYjd2YLUa82tUrXq+N=7+kdVxH8ryS64mKKkwhA6K+QfcDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F02BAF9.1000206@kdbg.org>

I did have a production file in my .git and also an empty folder left
in my remotes. Thanks heaps!

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
> Am 03.01.2012 00:42, schrieb Chris Leong:
>> I seem to have a "ghost reference" - ie. I can check out a reference
>> that doesn't appear to exist. Does anyone know what might cause this?
>>
>> ~/gaf-cvs (project-membership)$ g show-ref | grep production
>> ~/gaf-cvs (project-membership)$ g co production
>> Note: checking out 'production'.
>> ...
>
> The most likely reason is that you have a ref 'production' directly in
> the .git directory. Perhaps you or one of your scripts created it
> accidentally using 'git update-ref production ae5b621', i.e., without
> giving the full ref path name.
>
> -- Hannes