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shurcooL / Go-Package-Store

An app that displays updates for the Go packages in your GOPATH.
MIT License
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git fast forward failed caused package updated skipped #62

Closed stardiviner closed 7 years ago

stardiviner commented 7 years ago

Here is the output:

cd /home/stardiviner/.go/src/github.com/sourcegraph/srclib
git pull --ff-only# cd /home/stardiviner/.go/src/github.com/sourcegraph/srclib; git pull --ff-only
fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.

Done.

This invalid fast-forward caused package update failed.

dmitshur commented 7 years ago

Yes, this is normal. If a Go package can't be updated because its repository can't do a fast-forward git pull, then Go Package Store will print that message to stderr and not actually update the package successfully.

It behaves just like go get does.

When this happens, you'll need to carefully resolve the problem yourself and return the repo to a state where it can be fast-forwarded. Either do that by reseting it's master to origin/master, or remove the repo and go get it again.

One possible enhancement to Go Package Store is to display these errors in the frontend rather than stderr in console. That is an enhancement that may come later.

stardiviner commented 7 years ago

I see, thanks.