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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem upgrading to 1.4.0
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:12:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1wtwh246.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0606101707t5eb35a4du3ebd0fd17737943f@mail.gmail.com> (Geoff Russell's message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:37:16 +0930")

"Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> When I do a "git pull origin" I get messages:
>
>             error: no such remote ref refs/heads/gb/diffdelta
>             error: no such remote ref refs/heads/jc/bind
>             error: no such remote ref refs/heads/jc/bind-2
>             ...
>             Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>...
> So I went into .git/remotes/origin and
> removed the lines pointing at these branches and removed the gb and jc
> directories
> and did another git pull and it seems to have worked.

This is the second time this same gotcha caused trouble here.  I
agree it would be sensible to make git-fetch (which is called by
git-pull) to detect stale entries in the remotes/origin file and
remote.origin.fetch configuration items.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-11  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-11  0:07 Problem upgrading to 1.4.0 Geoff Russell
2006-06-11  2:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-06-13  2:33   ` Pavel Roskin
     [not found]     ` <20060612224818.383b13ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-06-13  2:48       ` Sean
2006-06-13  3:02       ` Pavel Roskin
2006-06-13  3:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-13  3:56           ` Pavel Roskin
2006-06-13  7:10             ` Geoff Russell

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