I've been bitten several times by this bug now, so I'll report it in the hopes that someone knows what to do to patch it. Scenario - I have a remote repository that takes on the order of 10 seconds to connect to, for any operation like 'git push'. I know that there is a lag, so I intentionally have two terminals open, both visiting the same directory, one for interaction with the remote, and the other for acting on the local repository, with the hope that I can do useful work in the second terminal rather than idly waiting on the lag in the first terminal. In the middle of rebasing a patch series, where I want to incrementally push the patches that I have gotten through so far, I used the following steps: On the remote-interaction terminal, I push the current state of my tree: git push remote HEAD:master On the local-interaction terminal, I move on to the next patch: git rebase --continue then, to my horror, I find out that the commit I'm working on locally has already been pushed! Why? Because 'git push remote HEAD:master' does not determine which commit 'HEAD' refers to until _after_ it has established a connection to remote, but the stupid 10-second lag was long enough that my actions in my second terminal have changed HEAD in the meantime. I would really love it if 'git push' would resolve all local references _prior_ to trying to connect to the remote server, rather than waiting until after the connection. That way, my remote-interaction terminal can truly be a type-it-and-forget-it terminal, where the push action I requested reflects the state of the tree at the time I requested it, rather than picking up changes made later in another terminal. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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