Re: Git fast-import : Warning duplicated ref: refs/remotes/origin/master

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 30, 2011, 19:46 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzkm4gef2.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20110530173517.GA13539@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> Jérémie NIKAES wrote:
>
>> No, I actually still have the problem. The version commited on github
>> is pulling revisions straight to refs/heads/master which is gross
>> After discussing this matter with our teacher Matthieu Moy, I wanted
>> to change this to refs/remotes/origin/master but then this warning
>> gets thrown.
>
> The following fixes it for me.

It seems it does, thanks!

clone does not give the warning anymore, and incremental pull work.

>  sub mw_capabilities {
>  #	print STDOUT "fetch\n";
> +	print STDOUT "refspec refs/heads/*:refs/mediawiki/$remotename/*\n";

Is this "mediawiki" comming from the URL (mediawiki::...), or is it just a convention you've set?

We've tried with refspec refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*, but without success.

Do I understand correctly that the "pull" is done in 3 stages:

1) import into refs/mediawiki/origin

2) fetch the imported ref into refs/remotes/origin

3) and merge as usual into the current branch

If so, I don't understand why the distinction between 1) and 2) is necessary, and why not to fetch directly into refs/remotes/origin/. IOW, in which case is refs/remotes/origin/master different from refs/mediawiki/origin/master for example?

Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/