From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Repairing fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref (git checkout of svn remote) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:02:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20081006140243.GB8203@spearce.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Kowalczyk X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 16:04:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kmqgl-000648-5F for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:03:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752232AbYJFOCo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:02:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752145AbYJFOCo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:02:44 -0400 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:49880 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752004AbYJFOCn (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:02:43 -0400 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3837F3835F; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > To test a particular upstream revision, on a git svn remote checkout (i.e. > branches/1.2, 76c7af2...), I checked out the equivalent of HEAD^^ (git > checkout 4a3d99c0c9). > > Now back at the branch tip, I get fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref > on git svn rebase: > > (4a3d99c...) $ git checkout 76c7af2 > HEAD is now at 76c7af2... Minor changes to CONTRIBUTORS > (76c7af2...) $ git svn rebase > fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref Current branch HEAD is up to date. > Segmentation fault > > How can I manually correct ref HEAD? git checkout whateverbranchyouwereonbefore git svn rebase -- Shawn.