From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kowalczyk Subject: Repairing fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref (git checkout of svn remote) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:00:58 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 16:03:34 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 1KmqfH-0005X3-QG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:02:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751809AbYJFOBM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:01:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751835AbYJFOBM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:01:12 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54626 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552AbYJFOBM (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:01:12 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kmqe3-0000gi-O4 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:07 +0000 Received: from 75-94-104-185.roc.clearwire-dns.net ([75.94.104.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:07 +0000 Received: from jtk by 75-94-104-185.roc.clearwire-dns.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-94-104-185.roc.clearwire-dns.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? Thanks. (The segmentation fault is a separate issue)