Re: can't push to binutils-gdb, git-hooks rejecting commits

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

Hi Joel,

On 08/22/2017 04:05 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> For me, I get a different error message, but in the same vein:
> 
>     fatal: bad revision '^refs/heads/users/hjl/gpoff'
> 
> I think it's related to the disk corruption. If the branch stopped
> existing, git should have removed the associated reference.
> 
> I would try a "git fsck" to see if it detects any other kinds of
> issues, and decide how to fix them. For instance, we could delete
> those branches, and ask HJL to re-push.
> 
> I don't think the "git remote prune" command was meant for
> that (I think it'll prune references from refs/remotes/ instead).
> 
> I can look into this, but as I traveling, availability on my side
> is a little spotty.

I don't have sourceware.org shell access, so it'll have
to be someone other than me, I'm afraid.  Any takers?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves