From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Bash 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) Message-ID: <23120755.523391.1287433903205.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mathieu Malaterre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 18 22:31:57 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 1P7wNA-0000p9-P6 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:31:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757622Ab0JRUbv (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:31:51 -0400 Received: from hq.genarts.com ([173.9.65.1]:7717 "HELO mail.hq.genarts.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755870Ab0JRUbv (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:31:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D83F1E26355; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:31:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.hq.genarts.com Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.hq.genarts.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ubJk7P2mdG28; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.hq.genarts.com (mail.hq.genarts.com [10.102.202.62]) by mail.hq.genarts.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DED61E26211; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:31:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.7_GA_2473.UBUNTU8 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Mac)/6.0.7_GA_2473.UBUNTU8) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mathieu Malaterre" > 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