Just now I checked out a topic branch in my working repo:
git checkout server-xprt-switch
and while waiting for it to complete (I just started work and caches
were all cold), I ran a
git fetch origin
in another window to update from Linus. The git fetch gave a warning:
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Counting objects: 7550
remote: Done counting 12885 objects.
remote: Result has 8400 objects.
remote: Deltifying 8400 objects...
remote: 100% (8400/8400) done
Indexing 8400 objects...
remote: Total 8400 (delta 7257), reused 5696 (delta 4586)
100% (8400/8400) done
Resolving 7257 deltas...
100% (7257/7257) done
* refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
old..new: d85714d..55b70a0
Cannot fetch into the current branch.
Why the warning? Also, afterwards I was left with server-xprt-switch
pointing to the tip of the branch I'd just switched from (another
miscellaneous topic branch). The working directory was in some
completely different state--thanks to a quick reset --hard I don't know
what it was. Also, in the reflog for the checked-out branch:
commit bac1e7977eb4781e62cee7f1c7c3d13a9e5d8d74
Reflog: server-xprt-switch@{0} (J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
Reflog message: fetch origin: Undoing incorrectly fetched HEAD.
Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 22 12:32:37 2007 -0400
...
Why was a fetch into the remote fooling with HEAD or anything under
refs/heads/?
--b.
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