Errors in haddock git fetch

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

You can get rid of the errors by doing

git remote prune <origin>

Where <origin> is the name you have for the upstream repo, normally
'origin'.

Alan

On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 16:11, Sylvain Henry <sylvain at haskus.fr> wrote:

> > error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags':
> 'refs/remotes/origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags/exception' exists; cannot create
> 'refs/remotes/origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags'
>
> This one is because I've removed some of my wip branches already merged
> upstream. Their names were conflicting with a new branch name
> (wip/hsyl20/dynflags).
>
> I forgot that everyone fetches every /wip branch so now it conflicts for
> everyone... I need to remember to remove the branch when !5845 will be
> merged.
>
> > Should I worry?
>
> No. The submodule seems to be checked out correctly even with the error.
>
> Sylvain
>
> PS: I still think we shouldn't have that many wip branches in the main
> repositories (cf
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2019-February/017031.html)
>
>
> On 27/05/2021 15:40, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:
>
> I’m getting these errors from `git submodule update`.  Should I worry?
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> From https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/haddock
>
> * [new branch]
> az/T19834                                                                ->
> origin/az/T19834
>
> * [new branch]
> az/T19834-2                                                              ->
> origin/az/T19834-2
>
> * [new branch]
> az/T19845                                                                ->
> origin/az/T19845
>
> * [new branch]
> az/T19845-2                                                              ->
> origin/az/T19845-2
>
> * [new branch]
> az/T19845-3                                                              ->
> origin/az/T19845-3
>
> * [new branch]
> dependabot/npm_and_yarn/haddock-api/resources/html/hosted-git-info-2.8.9 ->
> origin/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/haddock-api/resources/html/hosted-git-info-2.8.9
>
> * [new branch]
> dependabot/npm_and_yarn/haddock-api/resources/html/lodash-4.17.21        ->
> origin/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/haddock-api/resources/html/lodash-4.17.21
>
> * [new branch]
> dn/dn-driver-refactor-and-split                                          ->
> origin/dn/dn-driver-refactor-and-split
>
>    b4e7407b..c7281407  ghc-9.2
>                            -> origin/ghc-9.2
>
>    dabdee14..4f9088e4
> ghc-head                                                                 ->
> origin/ghc-head
>
> * [new branch]
> wip/T18389-task-zero                                                     ->
> origin/wip/T18389-task-zero
>
> + 7d27ea7a...3b6a8774
> wip/T19720                                                               ->
> origin/wip/T19720  (forced update)
>
> + fe35fed3...40ba457f
> wip/adinapoli-align-ps-messages                                          ->
> origin/wip/adinapoli-align-ps-messages  (forced update)
>
> * [new branch]
> wip/dn-driver-refactor-and-split                                         ->
> origin/wip/dn-driver-refactor-and-split
>
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags':
> 'refs/remotes/origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags/exception' exists; cannot create
> 'refs/remotes/origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags'
>
> ! [new branch]
> wip/hsyl20/dynflags                                                      ->
> origin/wip/hsyl20/dynflags  (unable to update local ref)
>
> * [new branch]
> wip/hsyl20/uncpp                                                         ->
> origin/wip/hsyl20/uncpp
>
> Unable to fetch in submodule path 'utils/haddock'; trying to directly
> fetch 4f9088e4b04e52ca510b55a78048c9230537e449:
>
> Submodule path 'utils/haddock': checked out
> '4f9088e4b04e52ca510b55a78048c9230537e449'
>
> simonpj at MSRC-3645512:~/code/HEAD-7$
>
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