Re: [patch V2 00/38] posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup and consolidation

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 02:54:34AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The series applies on top of:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers/core
> > 
> > and is available from git as well:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git WIP.timers/core
> 
> Btw, for some reason git here seems to be very unhappy about that remote:
> 
> Fetching tip
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/tip/WIP.timers/core': 'refs/remotes/tip/WIP.timers' exists; cannot create 'refs/remotes/tip/WIP.timers/core'
> From https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
> ! [new branch]                WIP.timers/core -> tip/WIP.timers/core  (unable to update local ref)
> error: Could not fetch tip
> 
> which repeats every time I fetch.  I can't of anythign particular on
> my side that would cause this.

Yeah I had to run "git remote prune tip" and fetch again.

Apparently there was an old remote branch tip/WIP.timers and git
seem to refuse to have a new subpath branch.