From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Chris Leong <walkraft@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git ghost references
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:23:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F02BAF9.1000206@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ6vYjfpx-hfDsd+urp5_iS99p0RhmxohOc+TNv7SUWFnYe5wQ@mail.gmail.com>
Am 03.01.2012 00:42, schrieb Chris Leong:
> I seem to have a "ghost reference" - ie. I can check out a reference
> that doesn't appear to exist. Does anyone know what might cause this?
>
> ~/gaf-cvs (project-membership)$ g show-ref | grep production
> ~/gaf-cvs (project-membership)$ g co production
> Note: checking out 'production'.
> ...
The most likely reason is that you have a ref 'production' directly in
the .git directory. Perhaps you or one of your scripts created it
accidentally using 'git update-ref production ae5b621', i.e., without
giving the full ref path name.
-- Hannes
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2012-01-02 23:42 Git ghost references Chris Leong
2012-01-03 8:23 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-01-03 8:32 ` Chris Leong
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