Re: cg-update (cogito-0.13) bug: changed heads
From: Petr Baudis <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:05
Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:01:25PM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] told me that...
I just found a bug in cogito-0.13, at least to the best of my understanding of the situation. Simplified, the problem looks like this: two sides, A and B, pull from repository C. The head of this pull we call 0. Now commit 1 is added to A. B pulls commit 1 from A, not though C. Later, A pushes commit 1 to C. Next time B tries to pull from C, cg-update will not advance refs/heads/origin, even though C now has a new head. Thus, B will think that C is in a different state than it actually is.
So, C surely has its head updated? Does cg-update "fail" silently, or does it utter anything? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox