Re: git remote --mirror bug?

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 14:05 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

Created a mirror like so:
 git --bare init 
 git remote add --mirror os2kernel /usr/local/src/os2kernel

Git fetch errors out
 git fetch os2kernel 
fatal: * refusing to create funny ref 'refs/stash' locally

Also 
git remote show os2kernel 
* remote os2kernel
  URL: /usr/local/src/os2kernel
Warning: unrecognized mapping in remotes.os2kernel.fetch: +refs/*:refs/*

git --version
git version 1.5.4.3

 Jocke

Forgot to mention that clearing the stash with "git stash clear"
deletes the refs/stash file and then above commands succeeds.

This is a rather harmless bug, but if you are running the fetch command
in a cron job to backup your repo, it becomes more serious as one
will not see the failure.

 Jocke