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From: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: aborted 'git fetch' leaves workspace unusable
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:07:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7adcf8024c435b9b7178b86f01e447bb@stephe-leake.org> (raw)

I forgot to do 'ssh-add', so a 'git fetch' running under Windows Emacs
tried to prompt for the ssh passphrase, could not find an ssh 
passphrase
prompt program, and aborted.

That left the workspace unusable:

- .git/FETCH_HEAD is empty

     that causes 'git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD' to fail with a confusing
     error message.

- 'git fetch' just hangs after outputting:

remote: Counting objects: 15, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 9 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)

     even with -v --progress

A fresh clone allowed me to continue working, but this will happen
again, so I'd like a better fix.

The fetch is from stephen_leake@git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git

I'm running git 1.7.9 from Cygwin. I have access to Debian, where I can
compile git and run it under the debugger, if that helps. I have not 
yet
tried to reproduce this bug on Debian.

--
-- Stephe

             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-30 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-30 17:07 stephen_leake [this message]
2013-12-30 19:37 ` aborted 'git fetch' leaves workspace unusable Junio C Hamano
2013-12-30 19:54 ` Torsten Bögershausen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-31  8:19 stephen_leake
2014-01-02 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-03  3:28   ` Stephen Leake
2014-01-03 17:58     ` Junio C Hamano

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