# Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. 7 messages from 2022-08-27 to 2022-09-08. Participants: Caglar Akyuz, Felipe Contreras, Junio C Hamano, Jeff King, Johannes Sixt. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58371 ## Caglar Akyuz, 2022-08-27 20:42 Subject: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AM0PR08MB4323160241D4341FB1B99CC2FD749%40AM0PR08MB4323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com ``` Hello, Recently I changed one of my repo's origin URL from gitlab to github. After this switch, I start getting: warning: refname 'HEAD' is ambiguous. messages when I use 'git status'. I check various things if I have tags/branches to blame but cannot find anything: * git show-ref | grep -i head -> nothing suspicious * find . -name HEAD | grep -v modules -> only .git/logs/HEAD and .git/HEAD * git branch -a | grep HEAD -> nothing Do you have any suggestions for a possible fix to this? Thanks, Caglar ``` ## Felipe Contreras, 2022-08-28 01:00 Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAMP44s2iwWhpeBrzuRK5mB9ekpy4MRu5OEQ-BA4mvbUb1EJRqw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 5:15 PM Caglar Akyuz wrote: > Recently I changed one of my repo's origin URL from gitlab to github. After this switch, I start getting: > > warning: refname 'HEAD' is ambiguous. > * git show-ref | grep -i head -> nothing suspicious Are you sure? You don't have a ref called "HEAD"? Just "HEAD". -- Felipe Contreras ``` ## Caglar Akyuz, 2022-08-28 08:31 Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AM0PR08MB4323EAC9ED1F88D5FF680DEFFD779%40AM0PR08MB4323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com In-Reply-To: ``` From: Felipe Contreras Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2022 4:00 AM To: Caglar Akyuz Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue.   On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 5:15 PM Caglar Akyuz wrote: >> Recently I changed one of my repo's origin URL from gitlab to github.  After this switch, I start getting: >> >>   warning: refname 'HEAD' is ambiguous. >> * git show-ref | grep -i head -> nothing suspicious > Are you sure? You don't have a ref called "HEAD"? Just "HEAD". I don't see just "HEAD". "git show-ref | grep HEAD" doesn't show anything if that's what you mean. Thanks, Caglar ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2022-08-29 06:36 Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqsflfr1y0.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: ``` Caglar Akyuz writes: > * find . -name HEAD | grep -v modules -> only .git/logs/HEAD and .git/HEAD plus "grep HEAD .git/packed-refs" > * git branch -a | grep HEAD -> nothing plus "git for-each-ref | grep HEAD" ``` ## Caglar Akyuz, 2022-08-29 06:57 Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AM0PR08MB432341F2A27E1133C7A31DEBFD769%40AM0PR08MB4323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com In-Reply-To: ``` From: Junio C Hamano on behalf of Junio C Hamano Sent: Monday, August 29, 2022 9:36 AM To: Caglar Akyuz Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue.   >Caglar Akyuz writes: >> * find . -name HEAD | grep -v modules -> only .git/logs/HEAD and .git/HEAD >plus "grep HEAD .git/packed-refs" This is empty as well. >> * git branch -a | grep HEAD -> nothing >>plus "git for-each-ref | grep HEAD" This is empty output also. Both 'grep HEAD .git/packed-refs' and 'git for-each-ref | grep HEAD' commands return nothing and still 'git status' is complaining about ambiguous HEAD. Thanks, Caglar ``` ## Jeff King, 2022-09-08 01:34 Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/YxlGnkPBmczarL62%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 06:57:00AM +0000, Caglar Akyuz wrote: > Both 'grep HEAD .git/packed-refs' and 'git for-each-ref | grep HEAD' > commands return nothing and still 'git status' is complaining about > ambiguous HEAD. Is it possible for you to tar up your .git directory and share it (either publicly, or privately to individual developers)? -Peff ``` ## Johannes Sixt, 2022-09-08 06:27 Subject: Re: Ambiguous 'HEAD' issue. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e6cfc04b-8f53-fb81-ea8b-79e983e46201%40kdbg.org In-Reply-To: ``` Am 29.08.22 um 08:57 schrieb Caglar Akyuz: > Both 'grep HEAD .git/packed-refs' and 'git for-each-ref | grep HEAD' > commands return nothing and still 'git status' is complaining about > ambiguous HEAD. Are you on a case-insensitive filesystem? Does `find .git -iname head -print` report anything that is not named uppercase HEAD? -- Hannes ```