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[John Ralls]

On Aug 27, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> On Aug 26, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>>> 
>>>>> Even worse, it's now sending two updates every time there's an update to
>>>>> the SVN repo.  It wasn't doing this before, so clearly something else
>>>>> must be wrong/missing..  The behavior is definitely different now.
>>>> 
>>>> I suspect that until the 15th the master branch existed but wasn't an alias.
>>> 
>>> How could that have happened?
>> 
>> How would it have gotten created? Git init does that, just like svn
>> creates a trunk. How did it get deleted? Somebody deleted it thinking
>> that it was confusing to have both "master" and "trunk".
>>> 
>>>> You could restore that configuration with `git symbolic-ref --delete
>>>> refs/heads/master; git branch master`,
>>>> or you could get rid of master and set HEAD to trunk: `git
>>>> symbolic-ref --delete refs/heads/master; git symbolic-ref HEAD
>>>> refs/heads/trunk`.
>>> 
>>> Considering the current state of affairs, do you think I should do this?
>> 
>> 
>> Well, the current state of affairs doesn't seem to be doing any harm
>> except raising your blood pressure, but we don't want you to have to
>> take statins. ;-) So do the latter one.
> 
> That didn't work:
> 
> -sh-4.2$ git symbolic-ref --delete refs/heads/master; git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/trunk
> error: unknown option `delete'
> usage: git symbolic-ref [options] name [ref]
> 
>    -q, --quiet           suppress error message for non-symbolic (detached) refs
>    -m <reason>           reason of the update

Hmm. Your git must be too old to have it. Try git branch -D master instead.

Regards,
John Ralls