[OSM-dev] Weird branches on github mirrors

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 09:39:00 BST 2012


Hi all,

When I clone various projects from github (e.g. mod_tile) I get weird
cascading branches

>From https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile
 * [new branch]      git-svn    -> upstream/git-svn
   96e542f..1739c6b  master     -> upstream/master
 * [new branch]      mirror/git-svn -> upstream/mirror/git-svn
 * [new branch]      mirror/master -> upstream/mirror/master
 * [new branch]      mirror/mirror/git-svn -> upstream/mirror/mirror/git-svn
 * [new branch]      mirror/mirror/master -> upstream/mirror/mirror/master

[...]

 * [new branch]
mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/master
-> upstream/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/mirror/master

I realise this is an artifact/bug of the mirroring scripts, but who
needs to do what to fix them?

Cheers,
Andy



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