RE: Switching branches not working in a cloned repo

From: Paul Williamson <paul.williamson@mediamiser.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2016, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <YQXPR01MB0023C5D73A5C4634D1D76E259EF40@YQXPR01MB0023.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
In-Reply-To: <3999677D12354A3CB2035E932353981A@PhilipOakley>

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Oakley [mailto:philipoakley@iee.org]

>Have you tried `git ls-remote` ?
>The `branch -r` just lists the local 'rtb's (IIUC).

Nice, I didn't know about that command - I tried it though and it does list the remote branches correctly. I checked the commit refs given and it tallies with the refs at the gitolite server end.

>It could be someone has accidently pruned or deleted that branch at the remote.

I don't think so, as I say it's a gitolite server, so usually nobody is on it. We just push to it and set up post-receive hooks for if updates need to be pushed on to a deployment server.

Do you know of ways to check if anything is corrupted within the repo? I ran git fsck, but that didn't show up anything.

>What version are you (they) on?

1.9.1 at both ends (my laptop and our gitolite server)

> Gmane had to quit. Try http://public-inbox.org/git (see the help link)

Ah! Thanks. I tried searching but so far only turned up this thread.

> philip

Thanks for your reply, Philip.

Paul