From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
To: Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object!
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:31:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23120755.523391.1287433903205.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=JgVhkNVu70nW7_vbqWUsS=mnJGQDVBtm-dxJD@mail.gmail.com>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
> To: git@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 3:23:57 PM
> Subject: error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object!
>
> I am trying to convert a SVN repository to GIT.
>
> The filter ran for a couple of hours. But after the conversion I get
> the following:
>
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/bla/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 59368, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25408/25408), done.
> remote: Total 59368 (delta 43461), reused 44204 (delta 33809)
> Receiving objects: 100% (59368/59368), 14.40 MiB | 14.27 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (43461/43461), done.
> error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.8 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.7 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.6 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.5 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.4 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.16 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.15 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.14 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.13 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.12 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.11 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/2.0.10 does not point to a valid object!
>
> Could someone please let me know what I am doing wrong in my script
> in filter-branch.
Yep, I ran into the exact same problem. Short answer, move/remove the refs/original directory before cloning, and the issue should go away.
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/8/20/37441
There was also a proposed test case:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/9/7/39119
HTH,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-18 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-18 19:23 error: refs/tags/2.0.9 does not point to a valid object! Mathieu Malaterre
2010-10-18 20:31 ` Stephen Bash [this message]
2010-10-19 11:15 ` Mathieu Malaterre
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