reinstalling package from git fails if branch is specified

[vbabiy]

#!bash

# pip install -e git://github.com/hmarr/boto@ses#egg=boto
Obtaining boto from git+git://github.com/hmarr/boto@ses#egg=boto
  Cloning git://github.com/hmarr/boto (to ses) to ./src/boto
  Running setup.py egg_info for package boto
Installing collected packages: boto
  Running setup.py develop for boto
    Creating /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/boto.egg-link (link to .)
    Adding boto 2.0b3 to easy-install.pth file
    Installing sdbadmin script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing elbadmin script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing cfadmin script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing s3put script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing fetch_file script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing launch_instance script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing list_instances script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing taskadmin script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing kill_instance script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing bundle_image script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing pyami_sendmail script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing lss3 script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing cq script to /usr/local/bin

    Installed /home/ubuntu/src/boto
Successfully installed boto
Cleaning up...

# pip install -e git://github.com/hmarr/boto@ses#egg=boto
Obtaining boto from git+git://github.com/hmarr/boto@ses#egg=boto
  Updating ./src/boto clone (to ses)
fatal: ambiguous argument 'ses': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/git reset --hard -q ses:

----------------------------------------
Command /usr/bin/git reset --hard -q ses failed with error code 128
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log

pip's version is 0.8.2.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/issue/215
• Originally Reported By: Valentin Golev
• Originally Created At: 2011-02-18 00:27:20

[vbabiy]

Can you try with the dev version? (just run pip install -U pip==dev) I believe
this was fixed in [Author: jezdez

Age: 7 weeks ago

Added check_rev_options in update() to add missing origin, thanks
hedberg.">r819:fb129ac78207]1

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Original Comment By: Jannis Leidel

[vbabiy]

thank you, it seemed like working with pip==dev, sorry. I'm changing status to
wontfix, it will be the right status, I guess

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Original Comment By: Valentin Golev