Re: Errors when updating an old git.git repository

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 26, 2006, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612262350070.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87ac1awjh0.fsf@trews52.bothi.fi>

Hi,

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Hannu Koivisto wrote:

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> "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.

Git works quite as expected here, so there is nothing to fix.

> 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

Since you said it is an older git repository, I guess that in your .git/remotes/origin are some lines like this:

	Pull: refs/heads/jc/bind:refs/heads/jc/bind

So, you _asked_ git to fetch these three branches! By not providing _any_ remote, you said: "look into .git/remotes/origin". And in that file you said: "fetch bind, bind-2 and diffdelta".

And git faithfully reports that it cannot fetch these branches (they are no longer there) and errors out.

Ciao, Dscho