From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tags, Grafts, and Clones, oh my!
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:45:04 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820061459.GB12794@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15347445.117294.1282265669453.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
Hi Stephen,
Stephen Bash writes:
> Unfortunately I'm running into a problem with cloning the resulting repository. Any git tags that are not associated with a live branch are declared invalid:
>
> error: refs/tags/tagFoo does not point to a valid object!
>
> I've now reproduced this issue in micro (much easier to work with than the 20k commits in the real repo), and it does go away if I git checkout -b branchFoo tagFoo before cloning the repository. I've examined the source repository, and the tag appears valid to me, as does the commit it points to. The first error I see is during the clone.
>
> Does this situation make sense to anyone? If it's a potential bug (rather than user error), I can submit my testcase. I'm currently working with git 1.7.2.1 on MacOS 10.6.4.
It seems too vague to me. Can you submit your testcase? Perhaps we can
work from there?
-- Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 6:17 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <29380346.117285.1282264933599.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
2010-08-20 0:54 ` Tags, Grafts, and Clones, oh my! Stephen Bash
2010-08-20 6:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-08-20 13:00 ` Stephen Bash
2010-08-20 13:39 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-20 14:40 ` Stephen Bash
2010-08-20 19:08 ` refs/original breaks git-clone for tags (was Re: Tags, Grafts, and Clones, oh my!) Stephen Bash
2010-09-07 23:14 ` refs/original breaks git-clone for tags Jonathan Nieder
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