On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:56:21AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > So what I suspect is happening is that topgit is trying to set HEAD to > "refs/top-bases/whatever". Aneesh, can you confirm by running your test > with GIT_TRACE=1? I suspect you will see a call like "git symbolic-ref > HEAD refs/top-bases/foo". Actually, I was able to reproduce with the recipe from Martin and Bert elsewhere in the thread. And that is indeed what is happening: trace: built-in: git 'symbolic-ref' 'HEAD' 'refs/top-bases/test' -Peff -- 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