From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cloning a tree which has detached branch checked out
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:32:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207153225.GA14773@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DtmQLX+Lfng-QRzVg9sfo8gQMXB-xTtPYpt+R2gModTg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:57:08PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > #git clone -n lab:/home/mst/scm/linux
> >> > ....
> >> > error: Trying to write ref HEAD with nonexistant object
> >> > cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e
> >> > fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.
> >> >
> >> > Looks like a bug, doesn't it?
> >>
> >> Which git version? IIRC there was some bugfix recently in that
> >> area...
> >
> > Sorry, forgot to mention that. It's pretty recent:
> > $ git --version
> > git version 1.7.9.111.gf3fb0
>
> The series that Jakub mentioned is probably nd/clone-detached 5ce2b97,
> which is already included in your tree. Does 1.7.9 work?
>
> I tried but it was ok for me. I think ref processing at local probably
> goes wrong and does not request commit from HEAD. If the repo is not
> confidential, you can zip it and send me.
This particular bug should have been fixed before that, even, with my
c1921c1 (clone: always fetch remote HEAD, 2011-06-07). And it is tested
explicitly in t5707, so your series does not regress at least a simple
case. So I think your guess about a subtle error in the local ref
processing is a reasonable one.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-07 7:06 cloning a tree which has detached branch checked out Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-07 10:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-07 10:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-07 12:57 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-07 13:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-07 13:07 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-07 15:32 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-02-07 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-07 17:16 ` Jeff King
2012-02-08 10:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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