From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cg-update (cogito-0.13) bug: changed heads
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:17:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906231756.GC26934@pasky.ji.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431E03A5.6060709@zytor.com>
Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:01:25PM CEST, I got a letter
where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...
> I just found a bug in cogito-0.13, at least to the best of my
> understanding of the situation.
>
> Simplified, the problem looks like this: two sides, A and B, pull from
> repository C. The head of this pull we call 0.
>
> Now commit 1 is added to A. B pulls commit 1 from A, not though C.
> Later, A pushes commit 1 to C.
>
> Next time B tries to pull from C, cg-update will not advance
> refs/heads/origin, even though C now has a new head. Thus, B will think
> that C is in a different state than it actually is.
So, C surely has its head updated? Does cg-update "fail" silently, or
does it utter anything?
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone. -- Alan Cox
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 21:01 cg-update (cogito-0.13) bug: changed heads H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-06 23:17 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-09-06 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-07 1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-07 2:17 ` Junio C Hamano
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