Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal-SoC management fixes for v5.0-rc6

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 02:04:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Okay, so I need guidance on the proper behaviour here. As this 
> > request
> > didn't use the magic wording for the commit-id (as generated by
> > git-request-pull), we ended up trying to look up the remote. The remote
> > specified was:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal fixes
> >
> > Since it's a short refname, we first try to look it up as a tag:
>
> No, you don't do even that.
>
> The name is "fixes". But you seem to match it with one of these:
>
> > $ git ls-remote git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal fixes^{}
> > a6d25f4c951b8b28f2eaec6f891ff834622532f2        refs/tags/omap-for-v3.10-rc1/fixes^{}
> > 77319669af37a1cfc844b801e83343b37e3c7e13        refs/tags/omap/fixes^{}
>
> *NEITHER* of which is a tag named "fixes". One is named
> "omap-for-v3.10-rc1/fixes" and the other is a tag named "omap/fixes".

Linus:

Thank you for the feedback. I've implemented a fix that handles 
shortname refs more properly in order to avoid hitting this problem 
again.

Regards,
-K