The rebase did fix up the obsolete commits ... but I still get the "warn: No branch of ..." message. I think that will go away when there is another newer commit in your tree. It doesn't seem to be a problem - the list of commits is right. See below: [sfrench@hera cifs-2.6]$ git fetch remote: Counting objects: 1627, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (178/178), done. remote: Total 1097 (delta 927), reused 1087 (delta 919) Receiving objects: 100% (1097/1097), 167.04 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (927/927), completed with 285 local objects. >From /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 28a4acb..5bb7ff7 master -> origin/master [sfrench@hera cifs-2.6]$ git rebase origin First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... HEAD is now at 5bb7ff7 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm Applying [CIFS] cifs_find_tcp_session cleanup Applying [CIFS] add local struct inode pointer to cifs_setattr Applying [CIFS] when not using unix extensions, check for and set ATTR_READONLY on create and mkdir Applying [CIFS] don't allow demultiplex thread to exit until kthread_stop is called [sfrench@hera cifs-2.6]$ git-request-pull origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git warn: No branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git is at: warn: e691b9d: [CIFS] don't allow demultiplex thread to exit until kthread_stop is called warn: Are you sure you pushed HEAD there? The following changes since commit 5bb7ff795fffc9418e3039cac77b42adcaae1a57: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git ..BRANCH.NOT.VERIFIED.. Cyrill Gorcunov (1): [CIFS] cifs_find_tcp_session cleanup Jeff Layton (2): [CIFS] add local struct inode pointer to cifs_setattr [CIFS] when not using unix extensions, check for and set ATTR_READONLY on create and mkdir Steve French (1): [CIFS] don't allow demultiplex thread to exit until kthread_stop is called fs/cifs/cifspdu.h | 1 + fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 16 ++++------- fs/cifs/connect.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- fs/cifs/dir.c | 16 +++++++++-- fs/cifs/inode.c | 35 ++++++++++++++--------- 5 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 May 2008, Steve French wrote: > > > > > That is not what I meant. I meant that since May 6th I only did one > > - and those messages still showed up. So I just ran a git-rebase > > origin which removed them > > You're doing something wrong then, and your rebased result is suspect. > > Have you done a "git fetch" to fetch what is in my current tree? Because > if you haven't, then you're generating the "this is the new state" without > actually taking into account that the old state was already pulled! > > And that *old* state contains those four merges that I got from your > previous pull request! > > So now you likely rebased the commits that I already merged (again, > because you *think* they are just local to your branch, because you > haven't updated your origin reference point), and they are now duplicates > of something I already have (but with different commit ID's, since your > rebase has moved them around in the history). > > So now, if I were to pull again, I'd just get the same commits all over > again, just as duplicates (plus any new ones, of course). Git would > probably merge it all fine - unless your new ones were to the same area as > the old ons, in which case it might be unhappy about the fact that both > branches changed things in the same area - but the history would be crud. > > In other words: you *must*not* rebase stuff that you have already > publicized. That just creates problems. > > The good news is that you can most likely fix it all up by just doing > > git fetch > git rebase origin > > because now the *new* rebase will try to rebase it all over again, but now > it will see that I already merged the old ones, so the rebase will just > skip those commits, and you should have only the *real* new ones pending > again. > > Linus > -- Thanks, Steve -- 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