From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, 49252@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#49252] [PATCH] Channels defaulting to HEAD instead of ‘master’
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 22:10:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7fyhwwj.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnovyobb.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Oh, this must be the reason. If I remove the cached clone:
>
> rm -rf ~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
>
> and then clone again, it works:
Great, glad that that mystery is solved.
> I suppose we need to add a call to fetch remote heads when they’re
> missing? It seems that calling ‘remote-fetch’ is not enough.
Right, a fetch won't do it [1]. Users are free to delete or redirect
refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD, and a fetch won't repopulate it.
On the command line, you can query the remote and recreate the symref
with `remote set-head <remote> -a':
$ git symbolic-ref -d refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
$ git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
fatal: ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD is not a symbolic ref
$ git remote set-head origin -a
origin/HEAD set to master
$ git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
refs/remotes/origin/master
In the libgit2 world, I think the most direct path might be something
along the lines of "get remote ref via git_remote_default_branch()"
followed by "create refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD via
git_reference_symbolic_create()". I'm not spotting either of those
functions in guile-git, though.
I haven't confirmed but based on the "symref-target" in the remote-ls
output you showed...
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> scheme@(guile-user)> (define o (remote-lookup r "origin"))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (remote-connect o)
> scheme@(guile-user)> (remote-ls o)
> $13 = (#<<remote-head> local: 0 oid: #<oid 00000000742ebc4bc09ce69b970eceb78291bdbf> loid: #<oid 00000000742ebc4bc09ce69b970eceb78291bdbf> name: "HEAD" symref-target: 73408368> [...]
... I guess it might be possible to determine the ref target with
remote-ls. In that case, it'd just be the
git_reference_symbolic_create() wrapper that was missing.
[1] In addition to the link I gave upthread, see
<https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180601065121.GA15578@sigill.intra.peff.net/>
for some discussion about whether fetch should populate it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-10 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-28 12:56 [bug#49252] [PATCH] Channels defaulting to HEAD instead of ‘master’ Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-09 0:38 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-08-04 15:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-08 23:28 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-08-09 9:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-10 2:10 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2021-08-10 8:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-11 0:34 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-08-08 13:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-08-08 23:08 ` Kyle Meyer
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