Re: cg-update (cogito-0.13) bug: changed heads

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:01:25PM CEST, I got a letter
where "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?

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                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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