From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: git-fetch while on "(no branch)" Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:09:50 +0000 Message-ID: <200701151009.51868.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 15 20:05:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@m.gmane.org Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6W2N-0000RF-Uc for gcvg-git@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:54:27 +0100 Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6V9W-0003eK-G1 for gcvg-git@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:57:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932178AbXAOKJ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:09:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932171AbXAOKJ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:09:58 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:14732 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932178AbXAOKJ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:09:57 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1306708uga for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:09:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=jn57SrlYCQUESb4pyJdlXboHczMCwsrEGeFSFSJfW5XjvByMK8QnxSSWF+4r9e3tUelAcGYMqsyYVFQQ//UVtfe0fDvID1Qezkv78iPjqzOYiGw+Zqb6rAVOwACluf2IQOoMiOzYDx6G1xhiDOIyvKTg6eeBUJ4M/vlAnOKYzYI= Received: by 10.66.219.11 with SMTP id r11mr5144612ugg.1168855795799; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from davejones ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e33sm6615252ugd.2007.01.15.02.09.54; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:09:54 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, Just ran this while on a detached HEAD. $ git fetch fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref remote: Generating pack... ...etc... The fetch appears to have succeeded anyway, but it's a scary message that tells a user something is "fatal". Has this done any damage? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com