From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:09:07 GMT
Subject: Re: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
Message-ID: <m3fxrbop4g.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1213717788.13390.2.camel@localhost>

Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov> writes:

> I guess I don't understand refs. I figured that since I have
> 
> remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> 
> set, I should have a ref refs/remotes/origin/* as well.

The above is _globbing_ refspec, it means that it maps 
"refs/heads/<name>" branch in remote repository to 
"refs/remotes/origin/<name>" remote-tracking branch in local
repository.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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