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2 master branches?

Reported by Oliver Beattie | July 22nd, 2008 @ 09:09 PM | in 1. Next

Sorry guys, I seem to keep stumbling across things in your app :( This one's nothing major though :D

Anyways, I was just looking at one of my private repos (the one that I can get at of the two I have, see the other bug of mine), and there appears to be two master branches. I don't know how this can be, and it doesn't affect anything else at all, just thought it was an issue you might like to know about. I've attached a screenshot for you…

Again, this doesn't affect me using Github in any way, I guess it's just a minor annoyance. All of the features work fine, and whichever link I click it takes me to the same page (/master/) so I see no errors :D

Anyhow, thanks for such an awesome product!

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Comments and changes to this ticket

Bryce Kerley July 23rd, 2008 @ 03:58 PM
I'm also seeing this on the private /bkerley/shove_auth project.
defunkt July 23rd, 2008 @ 04:42 PM
Scott Chacon July 23rd, 2008 @ 04:44 PM
James Urquhart July 31st, 2008 @ 06:14 PM
Also showing this in public /jamesu/rucksack project
Scott Chacon July 31st, 2008 @ 08:53 PM
also seeing this on schacon/grit. crap. suppose I'll have to fix it, then... :)
aaron (at orgsync) August 6th, 2008 @ 01:51 AM
I encountered the same bug. It went like this:
1. While in master, did a 'git checkout '
2. Type 'git branch' and it shows I've checked out '(no branch)'
3. Run a commit & push from this and you end up with 2 master branches. Also I couldn't figure out how to recover the files that were pushed because they weren't merged into my master branch.
Hope this helps.
aaron (at orgsync) August 6th, 2008 @ 06:44 AM
Textile or whatever ate my brackets. Step 1 should read:
1. While in master, did a 'git checkout [commit hash]'
Scott Chacon August 9th, 2008 @ 05:04 PM
this seems to be fixed now. I'd like to think it was something that I did.
Scott Chacon August 13th, 2008 @ 05:21 PM
nope, saw it again... crap
James Urquhart August 13th, 2008 @ 05:25 PM
Sometimes it isn't even the master branches.

For example, when i was doing some merging between the master and another branch, i noticed for a split second that the other branch was duplicated twice in the list. Refreshed, and then poof it was gone.

Very weird.
bruno August 22nd, 2008 @ 01:24 PM
Ditto... seeing two masters for a minute, then after a few refreshes, it's gone.