Re: Be more careful about updating refs

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

I observed the same (on Windows). The reason is that above-mentioned
commit introduces a call to parse_objects(). But by the time that
fast-import calls write_ref_sha1() (and, hence, this new parse_objects())
it has not yet written a pack file, and parse_objects() fails. I don't
have a clue how to fix this short of reverting the commit.

OK, so it's not just Mac OS X, then.  From your description and my
initial poke at the code,  I can't immediately see a good reason why
the test should succeed on Linux, though.