On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:11:00AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > This particular bug should have been fixed before that, even, with my > > c1921c1 (clone: always fetch remote HEAD, 2011-06-07). And it is tested > > explicitly in t5707,... > [...] > What is funny is "error: Trying to write ref HEAD with nonexistant object". > "git grep -e nonexistant f3fb0" does not register any hit. That misspelling of "nonexistent" was fixed by 7be8b3b (Fix typo: existant->existent, 2011-06-16), around the same time as my clone patch. Which really makes me wonder if the OP is accidentally running an old version of git during the tests. > >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> > #git clone -n lab:/home/mst/scm/linux > [...] > Could it be that mysterious "lab:" protocol handler that is misbehaving? I think you are misreading. It would be "lab::" in that case, no? The command above should do ssh transport to the machine "lab". -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html