Question

git version 1.7.7

I have dropbox git repository.

From my works computer karl-sun I have push my branches to my dropbox.

When I get home on my home computer karl-net I fetch my latest changes, do some more work and then push to my dropbox.

When I do this I get the following messages.

error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/remotes/origin/dev (karl-sun's conflicted copy 2011-09-07)' locally

This is annoying is there any way I can get rid of it. And why does it happen?

Answer 1

Quoting this blog post

It seems to happen when 2 people push to origin/master at almost the
same time. This makes Dropbox update the same file and seems to be the
cause of the error. When this happens, you can bet that one of the
people who did the push will lose his changes to origin/master. So
you’ll have to fix it accordingly.

The “funny ref” error does not have any critical effect on the repo
and Git seems to work perfectly. It will just annoy you every time you
try to fetch. It turns out that this “master (Shiki’s conflicted copy
2010-01-14)” is a branch in the main repo. Simply deleting it will
remove the error. In terminal, go to your main repo’s (Dropbox) root
folder:

git branch -d "master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)"