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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:11:42 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success
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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