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Brokenness fetching from a github repo which has merged a pull request #28
Description
Try fetching from, for example, git://github.com/kergoth/oe-core-template. The reason it blows up is as far as I can tell, the remote end has a ref (not a tag) which is outside of refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ (it's refs/pull/1/head and refs/pull/1/merge). When it fetches these remotes, the fetch_line has no ref type specified at all:
9e30b7d61417455edbbc4617eb9eef9341255bb5 not-for-merge 'refs/pull/1/merge' of git://github.com/kergoth/oe-core-template
And results in, as you'd expect:
File "/home/kergoth/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.1-py2.7.egg/git/db/cmd/base.py", line 119, in
for err_line,fetch_line in zip(fetch_info_lines, fetch_head_info))
File "/home/kergoth/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.1-py2.7.egg/git/db/cmd/base.py", line 442, in _from_line
raise TypeError("Cannot handle reference type: %r" % ref_type_name)
TypeError: Cannot handle reference type: "'refs/pull/1/head'"
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georgengel commentedon Feb 28, 2013
same problem with gitorious merge-requests:
Fetching from the remote
Cannot handle reference type: "'refs/merge-requests/1'"
jantman commentedon Apr 26, 2014
This is a serious problem for me as well... this has been open for a year, with no comment. Is there any update on this? Any hopes of getting it fixed?
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jantman commentedon Jul 16, 2014
I see that there's a lot of activity on GitPython lately, any chance of getting this fixed? This is a real blocker for using GitPython to interact with GitHub forks...
Byron commentedon Jul 17, 2014
I am trying to get back into the project, and seem to be doing this in baby-steps.
It's a bit like writers block - technically I can do it, but my head really wants to make me believe I should do other things first.
However, I should be fast in merging pull requests in case someone else wants to step up.
Byron commentedon Nov 19, 2014
FETCH_INFO parsing has been greatly improved in the latest version on pypi, which makes me believe this issue could be fixed.
However, when working on 0.3.5, I shall verify it.
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jantman commentedon Jan 2, 2015
@Byron thanks so much. I can confirm that 0.3.2.1 fixes the probelm when fetching GitHub remotes with pull refs (i.e.
fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/pull/origin/*)Byron commentedon Jan 2, 2015
Thanks for verifying this ! I am gladly closing this issue !