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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Matt Burke <spraints@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug report: stash in upstream caused remote fetch to fail
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 08:16:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbnzpkrvk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140106152742.GA26221@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:27:42 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 04:12:51PM -0500, Matt Burke wrote:
>
>> + git init -q
>> + git fetch -q -fu ../../../other '+refs/*:refs/*'
>> fatal: bad object 9b985fbe6a2b783c16756077a8be261c94b6c197
>> error: ../../../other did not send all necessary objects
>
> I was going to ask you to send your repository, but I can easily
> reproduce here. I guess people don't run into it because it's uncommon
> to fetch the whole refs/ namespace from a non-bare repo (and bare repos
> do not tend to have stashes). Here's a minimal reproduction recipe:
>
>   git init repo &&
>   cd repo &&
>   echo content >foo &&
>   git add . &&
>   git commit -m foo &&
>   echo more >>foo &&
>   git stash &&
>   git init --bare sub &&
>   cd sub &&
>   git fetch .. 'refs/*:refs/*'
>
> It looks like we are not feeding refs/stash properly to pack-objects.
> I'll try to take a closer look later today.

I looked at this in the past and I vaguely recall that we reject it
in the for-each-ref loop with check-ref-format saying "eh, that is a
single-level name".

At that point I stopped digging, thinking it was a feature ;-)
based on your exact observation about stash vs bare/non-bare.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-03 21:12 Bug report: stash in upstream caused remote fetch to fail Matt Burke
2014-01-06 15:27 ` Jeff King
2014-01-06 16:16   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-01-06 19:36     ` Jeff King
2014-01-06 20:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-06 23:03         ` Jeff King
2014-01-06 23:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-07  3:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-15 10:46               ` Jeff King
2014-01-15 10:48                 ` Jeff King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-01 16:59 Andrew Walrond
     [not found] ` <874nvap9hj.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
2012-02-01 22:37   ` Andrew Walrond

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