From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [topgit] tg update error Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:55:58 +0530 Message-ID: <20090212092558.GB21074@skywalker> References: <20090212084811.GA14261@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Aneesh Kumar , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 12 10:27:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LXXr5-0004Qo-T9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:27:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753428AbZBLJ0I (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:26:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751903AbZBLJ0H (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:26:07 -0500 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:60999 "EHLO e23smtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751168AbZBLJ0G (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:26:06 -0500 Received: from d23relay02.au.ibm.com (d23relay02.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.244]) by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n1C9OU7X024378 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:24:30 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay02.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id n1C9QLxO1122340 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:26:21 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n1C9Q3Sw011454 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:26:04 +1100 Received: from skywalker (kamarali-009124046169.in.ibm.com [9.124.46.169]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n1C9Px6s011353 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:26:03 +1100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090212084811.GA14261@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:48:11AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Aneesh Kumar [2009.02.12.0909 +0100]: > > doing a tg update with latest git gives the below error > > > > [extent_validate@linux-2.6]$ tg update > > fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/heads/ > > [extent_validate@linux-2.6]$ > > Which version? And could you please provide (a lot) more information > about your repository or make it available? > Latest git and topgit. Moving to git version v1.6.1.3 fixed the issue. I can reproduce the problem on any test repo. Just do a tg update after committing something in the dependent branch. -aneesh