Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 07:59:18PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > >> >> Notice the refs/heads _within_ refs/heads! >> > Probably you did something like "git branch refs/heads/master". You can >> > remove it again with "git branch -d refs/heads/master". >> As a porcelain, "git branch" should prevent (or at least warn) users >> from creating such refs, I think. > > I don't think I did it the way Andreas thinks. This repository is maintained > by a script, I don't create branches manually. The only command in this script > that uses "heads" is > > git symbolic-ref HEAD "refs/heads/$new_branch" > > to create new branches without any ancestry. And I double-checked that this > command is _not_ resposible for those ghost branches. > > BTW: I see such ghost branches reappearing again and again, so it must be > something systematic. You probably should check how $new_branch comes about. Also, once a directory refs/heads/refs/heads exists, "refs/heads/$new_branch" may possibly be resolved as a branch with the name refs/heads/$new_branch. -- David Kastrup -- 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