Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I just was fetching some updates from a repository which I sync from CVS > into my development repository. I got the following wierd errors about > a tag during the fetch, it seemed to fix itself by the end ... hmmmm. > > apw@pinky$ git fetch > error: refs/tags/v0_72_3 does not point to a valid object! > error: refs/tags/v0_72_3 does not point to a valid object! > remote: Generating pack... > remote: Done counting 42 objects. > remote: Result has 28 objects. > remote: Deltifying 28 objects. > remote: 100% (28/28) done > remote: Total 28, written 28 (delta 20), reused 20 (delta 12) > Unpacking 28 objects > 100% (28/28) done That sounds as if we are checking the refs/tags/v0_72_3 before we get the object itself. "does not point to a valid object!" message comes from do_one_ref() in refs.c which means your repository had $GIT_DIR/refs/tags/v0_72_3 before that object was retrieved. Which is _bad_. Could you reproduce and bisect it? - 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