Hi Stephen, Stephen Bash writes: > Unfortunately I'm running into a problem with cloning the resulting repository. Any git tags that are not associated with a live branch are declared invalid: > > error: refs/tags/tagFoo does not point to a valid object! > > I've now reproduced this issue in micro (much easier to work with than the 20k commits in the real repo), and it does go away if I git checkout -b branchFoo tagFoo before cloning the repository. I've examined the source repository, and the tag appears valid to me, as does the commit it points to. The first error I see is during the clone. > > Does this situation make sense to anyone? If it's a potential bug (rather than user error), I can submit my testcase. I'm currently working with git 1.7.2.1 on MacOS 10.6.4. It seems too vague to me. Can you submit your testcase? Perhaps we can work from there? -- Ram -- 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