From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cloning a tree which has detached branch checked out
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:41:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207104100.GA24828@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362fjklb7.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 02:08:33AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > I have a tree where I checked out a remote, without
> > creating a local branch, this detaches the HEAD:
> > # git branch
> > * (no branch)
> > master
> > #git log|head -1
> > commit cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e
> > #git log master..HEAD|head -1
> > commit cec64082f689f949a397cb9b39423dc41545fa0e
> >
> >
> > Now if I try to clone it:
> > #git clone -n lab:/home/mst/scm/linux
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mst/scm/linux/.git/
> > remote: Counting objects: 1693446, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (277054/277054), done.
> > Receiving objects: 100% (1693446/1693446), 418.16 MiB | 7.63 MiB/s,
> > done.
> > remote: Total 1693446 (delta 1414353), reused 1681280 (delta 1402358)
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (1414353/1414353), done.
> > 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
> --
> Jakub Narebski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 10:41 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 [this message]
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
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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