From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Wierd tag errors from current 'next' Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:08:14 -0800 Message-ID: <7vu00n1e8h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <456845E0.1050001@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <456845E0.1050001@shadowen.org> (Andy Whitcroft's message of "Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:32:16 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Go3p1-0006tg-9M for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:08:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967153AbWKYUIQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:08:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967158AbWKYUIQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:08:16 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net ([68.230.241.36]:23755 "EHLO fed1rmmtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967153AbWKYUIQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:08:16 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061125200815.SCJQ4817.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:08:15 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id r87k1V00C1kojtg0000000; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:07:44 -0500 To: Andy Whitcroft Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Andy Whitcroft writes: > I just was fetching some updates from a repository which I sync from CVS > into my development repository. I got the following wierd errors about > a tag during the fetch, it seemed to fix itself by the end ... hmmmm. > > apw@pinky$ git fetch > error: refs/tags/v0_72_3 does not point to a valid object! > error: refs/tags/v0_72_3 does not point to a valid object! > remote: Generating pack... > remote: Done counting 42 objects. > remote: Result has 28 objects. > remote: Deltifying 28 objects. > remote: 100% (28/28) done > remote: Total 28, written 28 (delta 20), reused 20 (delta 12) > Unpacking 28 objects > 100% (28/28) done That sounds as if we are checking the refs/tags/v0_72_3 before we get the object itself. "does not point to a valid object!" message comes from do_one_ref() in refs.c which means your repository had $GIT_DIR/refs/tags/v0_72_3 before that object was retrieved. Which is _bad_. Could you reproduce and bisect it?