[CLOSED] Inconsistent report of branch HEAD position #6757
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Monday Apr 14, 2014 at 16:00 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#7505
There seems to be a problem with github giving consistent reports about the branch head:
Notice the 'last commit'. But if I fetch that repo locally and then check the origin/task-796... head:
git rev-parse origin/topics-796-e221f943-5e22-44d1-9f65-c9fd1e197c27
fac79ffea39ed8dcdec3839511bc17e983d0bc15
The log (edited for brevity) as viewed from the local git cli is the same for both the local and remote branch (i.e.: git log task-796... and git log origin/task-796...
commit fac79ffea39ed8dcdec3839511bc17e983d0bc15
...
added bar
commit 1120bd6ddbc0fb295e4339ea49c0d98bd5855535
...
Initialized conveyor-workflow repo with README.repo file.
In my testing, the error happens about 1 in 20 to 1 in 60. It may have to do with github getting a PR request very quickly after the branch is pushed. (BTW, I'm not using hub myself). For now, when I detect the (possible) situation, I delete and re-add the branch. There appear to be times when the problem puts up with much greater consistency for a number of hours, then it becomes consistently rarer for a period. This may be an observation bias, but it did appear rather marked.