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Re: [PATCH 0/2] fetch, reflogs, and bare repositories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2014, 19:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> I ran into a rather confusing case of fetching into a bare repository
> with reflogs turned on:
> ...
> This turns out to be caused by two subtle bugs: one that makes "git
> fetch" use reflogs inconsistently, and the other that causes some ref
> updates to fail when reflogs are turned on and off. Details are in the
> fixes themselves.
>
>   [1/2]: fetch: load all default config at startup
>   [2/2]: ignore stale directories when checking reflog existence

Must have been painful and fun at the same time to diagnose these ;-) Both patches looked very sensible.

Thanks.
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  1. 0/2 fetch, reflogs, and bare repositoriesJeff King, Nov 4, 2014
  2. 1/2 fetch: load all default config at startupJeff King, Nov 4, 2014
  3. 2/2 ignore stale directories when checking reflog existenceJeff King, Nov 4, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2014

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