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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:09:07 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fxrbop4g.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213717788.13390.2.camel@localhost>

Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov> writes:

> I guess I don't understand refs. I figured that since I have
> 
> remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> 
> set, I should have a ref refs/remotes/origin/* as well.

The above is _globbing_ refspec, it means that it maps 
"refs/heads/<name>" branch in remote repository to 
"refs/remotes/origin/<name>" remote-tracking branch in local
repository.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-17 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-16 16:53 error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*' Nicolas Bock
2008-06-17  1:47 ` Nicolas Bock
2008-06-17 10:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-17 14:22     ` Nicolas Bock
2008-06-17 14:29       ` Johan Herland
2008-06-17 15:49         ` Nicolas Bock
2008-06-17 19:09           ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-06-17 21:00             ` Nicolas Bock
2008-06-17 14:46       ` Johannes Schindelin

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