Hi Ian!

I did
$ (cd libraries/random; git remote set-branches --add origin ghc-head)
$ ./sync-all pull

that fixed it.

Trying your suggestion:

$ mv libraries/random libraries/random-keep
$ ./sync-all get
...
== running git submodule init
== running git submodule update
>From http://darcs.haskell.org/libraries/random
 * [new branch]      ghc-7.2    -> origin/ghc-7.2
 * [new branch]      ghc-7.4    -> origin/ghc-7.4
 * [new branch]      ghc-head   -> origin/ghc-head
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
 * [new tag]         ghc-darcs-git-switchover -> ghc-darcs-git-switchover
>From http://darcs.haskell.org/libraries/random
 * [new tag]         2007-09-13 -> 2007-09-13
 * [new tag]         2008-05-28 -> 2008-05-28
 * [new tag]         2009-06-25 -> 2009-06-25
 * [new tag]         6_10_branch_has_been_forked -> 6_10_branch_has_been_forked
 * [new tag]         Initial_conversion_from_CVS_complete ->
Initial_conversion_from_CVS_complete
 * [new tag]         arity-anal-branch-point -> arity-anal-branch-point
 * [new tag]         cmm-merge2 -> cmm-merge2
 * [new tag]         ghc-6_8_branched_2007-09-03 -> ghc-6_8_branched_2007-09-03
 * [new tag]         nhc98-1-18-release -> nhc98-1-18-release
 * [new tag]         random_2007-05-24 -> random_2007-05-24
Submodule path 'libraries/random': checked out
'2117e38729adaa4f465f3c5b7a8c5c4d77702d3f'

Yeah, so this works too.

Interesting factlet: After I went back to my original repo

$ rm -rf libraries/random
$ mv libraries/random-keep/ libraries/random

I did

$ ./sync-all get
...
== running git submodule update
Submodule path 'libraries/random': checked out
'2117e38729adaa4f465f3c5b7a8c5c4d77702d3f'

So it appears that the './sync-all pull' command is
not enough for folks to switch the branches. This
should be communicated (or 'sync-all' fixed).

Cheers,

    Gabor

On 2/5/13, Ian Lynagh  wrote:
>
> Hi Gabor,
>
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:23:11PM +0100, Gabor Greif wrote:
>>
>> since you have pinned a commit that is on a branch, people whose
>> clones do not track that branch will never see the commit:
>
> As far as I can see it's working now. If you're still having problems,
> does
>
>     git pull
>     rm -rf libraries/random
>     ./sync-all get
>
> fix it?
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
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