Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 05:24:14PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:46 AM Kaartic Sivaraam >> <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > This is the most interesting part of the issue. I **did not** run >> >'git fetch ...' in between those cat commands. I was surprised by >> >how the contents of FETCH_HEAD are changing without me spawning any >> >git processes that might change it. Am I missing something here? As >> >far as i could remember, there wasn't any IDE running that might >> >automatically spawn git commands especially in that work >> >tree. Weird. > > Maybe something like this could help track down that rogue "git fetch" > process (it's definitely _some_ process writing to the wrong file; or > some file synchronization thingy is going on). You can log more of > course, but this is where FETCH_HEAD is updated. Well, a background-ish thing could be some vendor-provided copy of Git that has nothing to do with what Kaartic would be compiling with this patch X-<. > -- 8< -- > diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c > index 0696abfc2a..0dfb580e92 100644 > --- a/builtin/fetch.c > +++ b/builtin/fetch.c > @@ -786,6 +786,13 @@ static int store_updated_refs(const char *raw_url, const char *remote_name, > if (!fp) > return error_errno(_("cannot open %s"), filename); > > + { > + struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; > + strbuf_addf(&sb, "( date; ls -l /proc/%d/cwd ) >>%s.log", getpid(), filename); > + system(sb.buf); > + strbuf_release(&sb); > + } > + > if (raw_url) > url = transport_anonymize_url(raw_url); > else > -- 8< -- > > -- > Duy