[xen-tools-discuss] Moving to git (was: Re: Xen 4.0 / Commit access for others / Git or Hg?)

[Mathieu Parent (Debian)]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Axel Beckert <abe at deuxchevaux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> > Initialized empty Git repository in
>> > /home/mathieu/apps/xen-tools/xen-tools.git/.git/
>> > error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/tags/release-4.' locally
>> > [...]
>> > What is this funny ref error?
>
> BTW, which git version did you use?
Debian testing, aka 1:1.7.0-1.
http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/git-core

> I just get it with 1.6.5 (from Debian Lenny Backports) and 1.7.0.4
> (from Debian Sid), but not 1.5.6.5 (from Debian Lenny).
This is probably not a regression, but a better report.

>> This seem to have happend while importing the hg repository into git.
>> I'll try to remove it since it seems to be the basename of the
>> "release-4.1" tag.
>
> Have to correct myself: This comes from the imported .hgtags file of
> the original Mercurial repository:
>
> d75c787add2a7ceb19b30b018d4d16b7317c772d release-4.
> 6a10240d7c66e2f7df56457708efb9287640bcf4 release-4.1
>
> See also http://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools/commit/f968c9dd76e44d5ac156853917e20ee54e5cfe5a
>
> Anyway, I'll try to remove or rename it in the git repo with the git
> version which doesn't argue.

OK. But it is not blocking in any way.

Regards

Mathieu