On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 09:29:11PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > When I did a git pull --rebase, I got: > > error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/experimental/texindex-unicode': > 'refs/remotes/origin/experimental' exists; cannot create > 'refs/remotes/origin/experimental/texindex-unicode' > From git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/texinfo > ! [new branch] experimental/texindex-unicode -> > origin/experimental/texindex-unicode (unable to update local ref) > > A quick search made do > $ git update-ref -d refs/remotes/origin/experimental > > And then I could pull. I do not know if there is something specific > with my situation, maybe it is because I did a branch once. If it is > not specific to me, maybe we could say something on the list?
CC'ing list in case others have the same problem. I renamed a remote branch from "texindex-unicode" to "experimental/texindex-unicode". This appears to have clashed with a branch called "experimental", which did not exist any more on origin but must have existed in the past and you had a record it existed in your local repository. You can update the list of remote branches with "git remote update origin --prune".
