Re: 2.37.2 can't "git pull" but 2.18.0 can

[Lana Deere <lana.deere@gmail.com>]

With --prune set, the 2.18.0 pull still works but the 2.37.2 pull
still fails.  There are several of us sharing this branch and we
aren't having any issues pushing or pulling with 2.18.0.

.. Lana (lana.deere@gmail.com)



On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 6:25 AM Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Lana,
>
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2022, Lana Deere wrote:
>
> > I'm testing an upgrade to git 2.37.2 from the current version we're
> > using of 2.18.0.  When I try to pull in my development tree, 2.37.2
> > gives me an error but 2.18.0 things all is fine:
> >
> > $ /tools/linux-x86_64/git/2.37.2/bin/git pull
> > Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref
> > 'refs/heads/feature/switch-to-qt5'
> > from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.
>
> I bet this means that that `switch-to-qt5` branch was deleted on the
> remote side, in which case...
>
> > $ /tools/linux-x86_64/git/2.18.0/bin/git pull
> > From http://githost:7990/scm/dp/sw
> >  * branch                  feature/switch-to-qt5 -> FETCH_HEAD
> > Already up to date.
>
> ... Git would lie here and simply use the locally-cached version of the
> last successfully-fetched `switch-to-qt5` branch.
>
> To test this, you could pass the `--prune` option to `pull` (see
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pull#Documentation/git-pull.txt---prune for
> details), then try both pulls, and I bet _both_ will now fail.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>
> > Anyone have any ideas about this?  All I could find on google was a
> > suggestion that the "no such ref" message indicates the remote branch
> > was deleted, but that's not the case here.
> >
> >
> > .. Lana (lana.deere@gmail.com)
> >