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From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'.
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:07:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100210170757.GZ3599@xorcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100209213929.GL3599@xorcom.com>

Small update,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:39:29PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm using git-svn for watching over SVN repositories in
> svn.asterisk.org . The largest one there is
> http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk .
> 
> This worked fine up until recently. I was using Debian Stable with Git
> 1.5.6 .
> 
> Recently I upgraded my system to Debian Testing with Git 1.6 (I
> currently have 1.6.6.1-1). Today I tried to update the repository (git
> svn rebase --fetch-all) and got the following error:
> 
>   fatal: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'.
> 
> IIRC it followed an automatic garbage-collection in the repository.
> 
> I decided to re-clone the SVN repository (I was planning on doing that
> for quite some time, with a proper AUTHORS file this time. But it's a
> repo of some 200,000 revisions and takes a few days to clone)
> 
> I eventually got the same error.
> 
> The specific revision that triggered it:
> 
>   http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=47394
> 
> Should git-svn mangle SVN tag names to be legal git ref names? Or just
> panic before it makes the git repo invalid?
> 
> Is there a way for me to skip some tags? I can avoid that specific tag.

Here's one that did not work:

$ git svn clone -s --ignore-paths='^/tags/autotag_for_.$' http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk

I again stress that git-svn manages to fetch a faulty repository.
Another sub-question is: how do I remove that faulty reference git-svn
added?

> 
> Please CC your replies to me as I don't actively follow this list.

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               Tzafrir Cohen
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-10 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 21:39 git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.' Tzafrir Cohen
2010-02-10 17:07 ` Tzafrir Cohen [this message]
2010-02-11  8:36 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-12 14:41   ` Tzafrir Cohen

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