From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:32:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Kelly X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 20 18:33:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfyO7-0003il-7r for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:33:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753003Ab1ATRd3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:33:29 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:40677 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752988Ab1ATRd2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:33:28 -0500 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so770830bwz.19 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:33:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=MnyVP6cfLmVOAm0KQ6DCZvs6vsddMTpzZ5q/IqI/WF0=; b=owr7sbOktB8L3Gk3sP17zDj6DjC62xAOXWLqcGoj7B6ps3WLtTcHkOFqkuma2FDgQn gPlIpGJ9PGugwaFRX4lC8mV0KR1MxHbA/NQ3lp3yGn/gDi6zlnsRngpyz6Z83acvARZa 0A2ktNvbUM2amO4xwLVsFfYgDmBQM0E9ARqmo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=XPA3OiaRkvZjTsIyZ36MMc2LhiJ/9iVAAvF/M7FzMLS4pnc2LAR2pQlHBDn00CQqN5 OtLhidaNqyJSoE5aVIF/6jYKhTmyFf4hpnvhgCX/v2Xk1HxHqS43U8pWTDVyAis0KTTU 2LroHAPz4DPvYu9MlJM4HT8S2754BZ9FRmtus= Received: by 10.204.33.74 with SMTP id g10mr79366bkd.131.1295544760778; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:32:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.157.4 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:32:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Stephen Kelly wrote: >> On Friday we had an issue where a developer pushed a branch called HEAD to >> the remote server. The result was that other developers could not pull or >> push. > > Does anyone have any thoughts/response on this? Can you list a series of steps to reproduce this? > Why does git not have a bug tracker? Because it's not needed. If you have an issue, post the issue as you would file a bug: Which version of git? Which kind of network transport was used? Is this reproducible? Chances are, if this is reproducible in the latest version, someone would fix it soon enough. If not, and it's important to you, you would ping back. If other people find this issue, they would send another email. In fact, if you really want to help, you could clone the latest 'master' to see if this still happening, narrow down the steps needed to reproduce this, write a test to trigger it and send a patch. Certainly, a test case that constantly fails would be a constant remainder that there is a bug. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras