# odd behavior with concurrent fetch/checkout 2 messages from 2007-10-22 to 2007-10-22. Participants: J. Bruce Fields. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10429 ## J. Bruce Fields, 2007-10-22 16:51 Subject: odd behavior with concurrent fetch/checkout Message-ID: <20071022165125.GG583@fieldses.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071022165125.GG583%40fieldses.org ``` Just now I checked out a topic branch in my working repo: git checkout server-xprt-switch and while waiting for it to complete (I just started work and caches were all cold), I ran a git fetch origin in another window to update from Linus. The git fetch gave a warning: remote: Generating pack... remote: Counting objects: 7550 remote: Done counting 12885 objects. remote: Result has 8400 objects. remote: Deltifying 8400 objects... remote: 100% (8400/8400) done Indexing 8400 objects... remote: Total 8400 (delta 7257), reused 5696 (delta 4586) 100% (8400/8400) done Resolving 7257 deltas... 100% (7257/7257) done * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 old..new: d85714d..55b70a0 Cannot fetch into the current branch. Why the warning? Also, afterwards I was left with server-xprt-switch pointing to the tip of the branch I'd just switched from (another miscellaneous topic branch). The working directory was in some completely different state--thanks to a quick reset --hard I don't know what it was. Also, in the reflog for the checked-out branch: commit bac1e7977eb4781e62cee7f1c7c3d13a9e5d8d74 Reflog: server-xprt-switch@{0} (J. Bruce Fields ) Reflog message: fetch origin: Undoing incorrectly fetched HEAD. Author: J. Bruce Fields Date: Mon Oct 22 12:32:37 2007 -0400 ... Why was a fetch into the remote fooling with HEAD or anything under refs/heads/? --b. ``` ## J. Bruce Fields, 2007-10-22 19:46 Subject: Re: odd behavior with concurrent fetch/checkout Message-ID: <20071022194638.GN583@fieldses.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071022194638.GN583%40fieldses.org In-Reply-To: <20071022165125.GG583@fieldses.org> ``` On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:51:25PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Just now I checked out a topic branch in my working repo: > > git checkout server-xprt-switch > > and while waiting for it to complete (I just started work and caches > were all cold), I ran a > > git fetch origin > > in another window to update from Linus. The git fetch gave a warning: > > remote: Generating pack... > remote: Counting objects: 7550 > remote: Done counting 12885 objects. > remote: Result has 8400 objects. > remote: Deltifying 8400 objects... > remote: 100% (8400/8400) done > Indexing 8400 objects... > remote: Total 8400 (delta 7257), reused 5696 (delta 4586) > 100% (8400/8400) done > Resolving 7257 deltas... > 100% (7257/7257) done > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of > * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 > old..new: d85714d..55b70a0 > Cannot fetch into the current branch. By the way, I should have said--this is with git version 1.5.3.4.208.gc990. --b. > > Why the warning? Also, afterwards I was left with server-xprt-switch > pointing to the tip of the branch I'd just switched from (another > miscellaneous topic branch). The working directory was in some > completely different state--thanks to a quick reset --hard I don't know > what it was. Also, in the reflog for the checked-out branch: > > commit bac1e7977eb4781e62cee7f1c7c3d13a9e5d8d74 > Reflog: server-xprt-switch@{0} (J. Bruce Fields ) > Reflog message: fetch origin: Undoing incorrectly fetched HEAD. > Author: J. Bruce Fields > Date: Mon Oct 22 12:32:37 2007 -0400 > ... > > Why was a fetch into the remote fooling with HEAD or anything under > refs/heads/? > > --b. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ```