I ran into a peculiar issue running git 1.6.1.2 on HP-UX: it looks
like something has remembered an old repository and insists on
providing that to "git fetch" instead of the new repository. Appending
"/." at the end of the remote repository fixes the problem.
Here are the details. I created a git repository in /home/ddd/vmm,
impored some Subversion history, and started working with that. I
created a few branches, e.g. one called "perrier". Then, I realized
that there was a better way to track Subversion changes, and so I
moved the old repository as /home/ddd/vmm.git, and created a new one
that I populated with "git svn clone svn+ssh://path/to/repot -T trunk -
b branches -t users". That new repository has no branch named
"perrier" in it.
Now, when I'm on another machine, create a new repository with the
same "git svn clone", then do a "git remote add ddd ssh://name@mymachine/home/ddd/vmm
", I would expect to pick up the repository that is actually under /
home/ddd/vmm on mymachine. But when I do a "git svn fetch", the output
contains:
warning: no common commits
remote: Counting objects: 66874, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14626/14626), done.
remote: Total 66874 (delta 51668), reused 66589 (delta 51418)
Receiving objects: 100% (66874/66874), 96.41 MiB | 187 KiB/s, done
Resolving deltas: 100% (51668/51668), done.
From ssh://name@mymachine/home/ddd/vmm
* [new branch] perrier -> ddd/perrier
...
as well as all branches from /home/ddd/vmm.git (not /home/ddd/vmm). I
tried doing an "ssh name@mymachine ls /home/ddd/vmm" to check that
this was indeed the new repository. If instead of "/home/ddd/vmm", I
specify "/home/ddd/vmm/.", then I do get the branches in the new
repository, e.g in that case I get:
* [new branch] tot -> ddd-good/tot
This is not just a name dependency, though, because if I specify /
home/./ddd/vmm, then I get the old repository again. So what seems to
matter is the dot at the end of the repository name.
I'm really puzzled by this behavior, and I have been unable to find
anything in the git documentation explaining it. I tried to find
references to vmm.git anywhere on either machines, but I couldn't.
This is easily reproduced, so I'm willing to run experiments to try
and debug the problem.
Thanks
Christophe
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