Hi gregor, Thanks for investigating.
https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage/-/merge_requests/84 should fix it (I assume that wasn't always part of for-each-ref). Cheers, -- Guido On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 05:21:51PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:28:01 +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > > > I sometimes use the salsa tool from devscripts to clone repositories > > from salsa. It uses "gbp clone --all" to do that. > > I noticed that I have branches named "origin" that were created by gbp > > (they don't exist in the remote repository). > > Same here (with dpt-checkout, which also uses "gbp clone --all"). > > > For example: > > $ gbp clone --all -v https://salsa.debian.org/reiner/deheader > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup'] > > gbp:info: Cloning from 'https://salsa.debian.org/reiner/deheader' > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'clone', '--quiet', > > 'https://salsa.debian.org/reiner/deheader'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'for-each-ref', '--format=%(refname:short)', > > 'refs/remotes/'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/origin'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'branch', 'origin', 'origin'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/master'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'branch', 'pristine-tar', 'origin/pristine-tar'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/heads/upstream'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'branch', 'upstream', 'origin/upstream'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', '--verify', 'refs/remotes/master'] > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', '-z', '-r', '-l', 'HEAD', '--'] > > $ cd deheader/ > > $ git branch > > * master origin pristine-tar upstream > > $ git for-each-ref '--format=%(refname:short)' 'refs/remotes/' > > origin/HEAD > > origin/master > > origin/pristine-tar > > origin/upstream > > I untangled the debug output a bit more to see where the "origin" is coming > from: > > % git clone --verbose > '[email protected]:perl-team/modules/packages/libconfig-model-tkui-perl.git' > Cloning into 'libconfig-model-tkui-perl'... > remote: Enumerating objects: 6932, done. > remote: Total 6932 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 6932 (from 1) > Receiving objects: 100% (6932/6932), 2.67 MiB | 2.60 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (3964/3964), done. > > % cd libconfig-model-tkui-perl > > % git branch --all --verbose > * master 5b3a9a6 Update changelog for 1.381-1 release > remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master > remotes/origin/experimental 40f43d2 Update changelog for 1.374-1 release > remotes/origin/master 5b3a9a6 Update changelog for 1.381-1 release > remotes/origin/pristine-tar 4df6a36 pristine-tar data for > libconfig-model-tkui-perl_1.379.orig.tar.gz > remotes/origin/upstream 9739302 v1.381 > > % git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/remotes/ > origin > origin/experimental > origin/master > origin/pristine-tar > origin/upstream > > Aha! > > And then the for-each-ref loop seen above runs, inter alia, `git branch > origin origin'. Et voila … > > > > Maybe the pattern in the git-for-each-ref could be tightened a bit? Random > try, probably too tight: > > % git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" "refs/remotes/origin/[a-z]*" > origin/experimental > origin/master > origin/pristine-tar > origin/upstream > > > > Cheers, > gregor > > > > -- > .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org > : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 > `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe > `-
