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. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen@xxxxxxxxxx +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/tzafrir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html