From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tzafrir Cohen Subject: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'. Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:39:29 +0200 Organization: Xorcom* Message-ID: <20100209213929.GL3599@xorcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 09 22:49:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NexxN-0003UZ-Dp for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:49:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753497Ab0BIVtL (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:49:11 -0500 Received: from local.xorcom.com ([62.90.10.53]:51931 "EHLO local.xorcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753861Ab0BIVtJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:49:09 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 506 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:48:59 EST Received: by local.xorcom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4418B7C1DCF; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:39:29 +0200 (IST) Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline X-Forced-Service: Sadly Using Gmail [tm] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. Please CC your replies to me as I don't actively follow this list. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir