Subject: Re: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 23:40:55 -0500

Larry Finger wrote:

> After applying that patch, I get
>
> finger@larrylap:~/linux-2.6> ~/git/git pull
> fatal: ref refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 is corrupt: length=41, content=

Great, thanks.

In the short term I'd suggest just removing the corrupt
.git/refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 file with "rm" so it can be fetched again.
Hopefully later tonight I can prepare a real patch to fix this, though
I wouldn't mind if someone else takes care of it first.