On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:51:25PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 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.
By the way, I should have said--this is with git version
1.5.3.4.208.gc990.
--b.
>
> 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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