Re: [HEADS UP] Rename of the vendor/openzfs branch

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 2:13 PM Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> 8 juin 2021 13:47:04 Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > As mentioned in the "OpenZFS imports, status update":
> >
> >     https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-git/2021-June/000013.html
> >
> > We're going to rename the current openzfs vendor branch,
> > vendor/openzfs, to vendor/openzfs/legacy
> > and import directly the master and zfs-2.1-release branches from the
> > upstream OpenZFS to vendor/openzfs/* for merging to our main and
> > stable/13 branches. The details can be found in the mail above.
> >
> > The people have local branch tracking the original vendor/openzfs may
> > encounter error message like this whey doing `git pull`:
> >
> >     error: cannot lock ref
> > 'refs/remotes/freebsd/vendor/openzfs/legacy':
> > 'refs/remotes/freebsd/vendor/openzfs' exists; cannot create
> > 'refs/remotes/freebsd/vendor/openzfs/legacy'
> >
> > The solution is update the upstream of the tracking branch:
> >
> >     (change "freebsd" to "origin" if you use the default remote name)
> >     git remote prune freebsd
> >     (on your tracking branch)
> >     git branch -u freebsd/vendor/openzfs/legacy
> >
> > If you don't want the first command prune all the branches not
> > existing in the remote repository, use this:
> >
> >     git update-ref -d refs/remotes/freebsd/vendor/openzfs
> >     (also, change "freebsd" to "origin" if you use the default remote
> name)
> >
> > After that you can do `git pull` or `git fetch` as usual.
> >
> > If you have any questions, please post on -git@ list.
> >
> > Best,
> > Li-Wen
>
> For your information this broke gitlab mirroring... I don t when I can
> have the ability to fix
>

Doh!

Warner