Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] failure updating Git repository

[Chris Hanson]

This is OK, just do what it says.

I removed some branches from the repository; running the suggested
command will remove them from your local copy.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Taylor R Campbell<address@hidden> wrote:
> I have never done anything, as far as I know, in this Git repository
> beyond various non-destructive commands such as `git log', `git diff',
> `git status', &c., and the occasional `git pull' to update it.
>
> % git pull
> remote: Counting objects: 325, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (80/80), done.
> remote: Total 189 (delta 158), reused 120 (delta 105)
> Receiving objects: 100% (189/189), 33.83 KiB, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (158/158), completed with 121 local objects.
> From git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mit-scheme
>  + 645587e...a996c47 HEAD       -> origin/HEAD  (forced update)
> error: Ref refs/remotes/origin/master is at 
> a996c47f0b70804af9c42cc25b63a14460f56283 but expected 
> 645587e343ef1f3961fa6f2f0ba08af0bdeddb64
>  ! 645587e..d9c4d20  master     -> origin/master  (unable to update local ref)
> error: some local refs could not be updated; try running
>  'git remote prune origin' to remove any old, conflicting branches
>
> What did I do wrong?  I have no idea what the suggested command `git
> remote prune origin' does, but it sounds as though it will
> destructively update the remote repository, which is far from what I
> want to do.  I hope I didn't screw anything up when I committed a
> one-line change to edwin/basic.scm the other week (which I did from a
> separate repository, not this clean one which I am trying to update).
>
>
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