unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success (Re: git problem)

Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-03T03:59:28Z

Hi,

Larry Finger wrote:

> I had my system freeze when doing a pull from Linus's repo. Since then,
> every pull results in the following errors:
>
> ~> git pull
> error: unable to resolve reference refs/tags/v3.1-rc8: Success
> From git://github.com/torvalds/linux
> ! [new tag] v3.1-rc8 -> v3.1-rc8 (unable to update local ref)

Could you try pulling again with
"/path/to/git/sources/bin-wrappers/git pull" after applying this
patch?

Thanks,

diff --git i/refs.c w/refs.c
index a615043b..b15f78a4 100644
--- i/refs.c
+++ w/refs.c
@@ -493,12 +493,15 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *
char *buf;
int fd;

- if (--depth < 0)
+ if (--depth < 0) {
+ errno = ELOOP;
return NULL;
+ }

git_snpath(path, sizeof(path), "%s", ref);
/* Special case: non-existing file. */
if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) {
+ int saved_errno = errno;
struct ref_list *list = get_packed_refs(NULL);
while (list) {
if (!strcmp(ref, list->name)) {
@@ -509,6 +512,7 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *
}
list = list->next;
}
+ errno = saved_errno;
if (reading || errno != ENOENT)
return NULL;
hashclr(sha1);
@@ -562,7 +566,8 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *
*flag |= REF_ISSYMREF;
}
if (len < 40 || get_sha1_hex(buffer, sha1))
- return NULL;
+ die("ref %s is corrupt: length=%d, content=%.*s", ref,
+ (int) len, (int) len, buffer);
return ref;
}