Bug 7936 – clone of /modest/wpeditor.git fails with: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Bug 7936 - clone of /modest/wpeditor.git fails with: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.


Summary:	clone of /modest/wpeditor.git fails with: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent r...

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Product:	maemo.gitorious.com Website
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Tero Kojo
QA Contact:	gitorious

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Reported:	2010-01-13 22:40 UTC by Darryl L. Miles
Modified:	2010-01-19 19:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Darryl L. Miles (reporter) 2010-01-13 22:40:31 UTC

Maybe someone can explain how this kind of thing happens (for those of us using
GIT for the first time).


[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] >  git clone
git://gitorious.org/modest/wpeditor.git
Initialize wpeditor/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/odin/bugfixes/wpeditor/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 50, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (46/46), done.
remote: Total 50 (delta 11), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (50/50), 109.76 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (11/11), done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > cat wpeditor/.git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > find wpeditor/
wpeditor/
wpeditor/.git
wpeditor/.git/HEAD
wpeditor/.git/description
wpeditor/.git/logs
wpeditor/.git/logs/refs
wpeditor/.git/logs/refs/remotes
wpeditor/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin
wpeditor/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/modest
wpeditor/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/upstream
wpeditor/.git/hooks
wpeditor/.git/hooks/post-commit
wpeditor/.git/hooks/update
wpeditor/.git/hooks/commit-msg
wpeditor/.git/hooks/post-receive
wpeditor/.git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg
wpeditor/.git/hooks/pre-commit
wpeditor/.git/hooks/pre-applypatch
wpeditor/.git/hooks/post-update
wpeditor/.git/hooks/pre-rebase
wpeditor/.git/hooks/applypatch-msg
wpeditor/.git/branches
wpeditor/.git/refs
wpeditor/.git/refs/remotes
wpeditor/.git/refs/remotes/origin
wpeditor/.git/refs/remotes/origin/modest
wpeditor/.git/refs/remotes/origin/upstream
wpeditor/.git/refs/heads
wpeditor/.git/refs/tags
wpeditor/.git/config
wpeditor/.git/objects
wpeditor/.git/objects/pack
wpeditor/.git/objects/pack/pack-092273fcbf781e1593c3759cc85e28eb734ad66b.pack
wpeditor/.git/objects/pack/pack-092273fcbf781e1593c3759cc85e28eb734ad66b.idx
wpeditor/.git/objects/pack/pack-092273fcbf781e1593c3759cc85e28eb734ad66b.keep
wpeditor/.git/objects/info
wpeditor/.git/info
wpeditor/.git/info/exclude

That is the file scructure obtained before the GIT "warning" aborted !  smells
more like an error to me than a warning.


timeless_mbp from IRC cited a link:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gitorious@googlegroups.com/msg00228.html


I think someone with read-write GIT access needs to change something ?

Comment 1 Michael Hasselmann 2010-01-13 22:44:35 UTC

Try this directly after your failed clone attempt:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > cd wpeditor
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > git branch -a
  origin/modest
  origin/upstream

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > git checkout -b modest origin/modest
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > git branch
* modest

Comment 2 Darryl L. Miles (reporter) 2010-01-13 23:09:17 UTC

Yes after running these 4 commands the package source tree appears in the top
level directory.

So this workaround works, so just the repo to tweak/fix.



For reference the output of running this commands by me looked more like:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes] > cd wpeditor
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes/wpeditor] > git branch -a
  origin/modest
  origin/upstream
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes/wpeditor] > git checkout -b modest
origin/modest
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
warning: Forcing checkout of origin/modest.
Branch modest set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/modest.
Switched to a new branch "modest"
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/bugfixes/wpeditor] > git branch
* modest

Comment 3 Darryl L. Miles (reporter) 2010-01-19 19:22:56 UTC

This has been fixed by jdapena@igalia.com (Modest maintainer???) on
14-Jan-2010.