Re: [egit-dev] Error in Fetch from Gerit for "invisible" review branch

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Matthias, is it possible to see the changes via "git log" or another command on the server? Git log refuses to show refs/changes for my attempts.

Best regards, Lars

Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Do., 12. Apr. 2018, 14:18:

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

we had a crash of our Gerrit server (hardware) and installed a new
one. After a little tweaking everything works again, except that we
get a error during fetch for the "review" branch. See screenshot.

Running "git fetch -f" on the command line fixes that error but I
would like to understand this better.

Two questions:

1.) Does Eclipse EGit UI allow to perform a forced fetch?
2.) What is the "review" branch and how can I see this in the git
command line tooling. git branch -a does not show it.

Thanks for the help, Lars

git fetch by default only fetches refs/heads/* and refs/tags/* (except if you use a custom refspec).

Gerrit stores review branches in a non-standard namespace under refs/changes/*. These are not

advertised by the standard git protocol so you have to use a custom refspec to fetch them.

You probably don't want to fetch all changes/patchsets from Gerrit but only those you want

to have a look at locally.

I have no idea where this review branch comes from.

Try ls-remote which should list all references available on the server

$ git ls-remote | grep review 

depending on the number of changes in this repository this can take a while

(we have repositories with >500k changes)

-Matthias