Re: git-svn: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'.

Small update,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:39:29PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

Hi

I'm using git-svn for watching over SVN repositories in
svn.asterisk.org . The largest one there is
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk .

This worked fine up until recently. I was using Debian Stable with Git
1.5.6 .

Recently I upgraded my system to Debian Testing with Git 1.6 (I
currently have 1.6.6.1-1). Today I tried to update the repository (git
svn rebase --fetch-all) and got the following error:

  fatal: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.'.

IIRC it followed an automatic garbage-collection in the repository.

I decided to re-clone the SVN repository (I was planning on doing that
for quite some time, with a proper AUTHORS file this time. But it's a
repo of some 200,000 revisions and takes a few days to clone)

I eventually got the same error.

The specific revision that triggered it:

  http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=47394

Should git-svn mangle SVN tag names to be legal git ref names? Or just
panic before it makes the git repo invalid?

Is there a way for me to skip some tags? I can avoid that specific tag.

Here's one that did not work:

$ git svn clone -s --ignore-paths='^/tags/autotag_for_.$' http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk

I again stress that git-svn manages to fetch a faulty repository.
Another sub-question is: how do I remove that faulty reference git-svn
added?

Please CC your replies to me as I don't actively follow this list.

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