[Cython] hg-git shows 25 heads?

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 07/07/2011 07:52 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:28:36 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> there's something broken with the repo recently. Even in a fresh
>> checkout, I see 25 heads, most of which were supposed to be merges into
>> the master branch (mainly button merges). The github web site doesn't
>> show these, it only has three branches.
>>
>> This keeps me from pushing. A hg pull currently says that it gets 735
>> objects *each time*, without any visible changes, and a push says it
>> would override a changeset.
>>
>> Any idea what may have gone wrong?
>
> It seems that the Github's automatic merge feature creates hidden
> branches in the namespace
>
> 	refs/pull/*
>
> Git does not fetch these by default unless you tell it to,
>
> 	git fetch origin refs/*:refs/*
>
> The hidden branches are there, but you never see them in normal usage,
> and they are never pulled so they do not take space in clones.
>
> But maybe Mercurial's git plugin gets confused because of them?
> I'm not familiar with how it works, but maybe you can instruct it
> to track only branches in the default namespace refs/heads/*

Sounds like this should be a Github or hg-git bug report.

5 minutes of Googling didn't turn up anything... Do you think it would 
be a bad idea to simply delete these branches, something like

git push origin :refs/*

?

Dag Sverre