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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:11:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E89440E.8060702@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111003044045.GA17289@elie>

On 10/02/2011 11:40 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
>
>> After applying that patch, I get
>>
>> finger@larrylap:~/linux-2.6>  ~/git/git pull
>> fatal: ref refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 is corrupt: length=41, content=
>
> Great, thanks.
>
> In the short term I'd suggest just removing the corrupt
> .git/refs/tags/v3.1-rc8 file with "rm" so it can be fetched again.
> Hopefully later tonight I can prepare a real patch to fix this, though
> I wouldn't mind if someone else takes care of it first.

Thanks. That did the trick.

Larry


      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03  2:57 git problem Larry Finger
2011-10-03  3:59 ` unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success (Re: git problem) Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-03  4:15   ` Larry Finger
2011-10-03  4:40     ` unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-03  5:11       ` Larry Finger [this message]

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